Event Schedule
On Friday, May 18 we will have a full day of events at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York City.
In the morning we will have a tour of the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury
and Legacy in the Ancient Americas with Joanne Pillsbury, the Andrall E. Pearson
Curator, Arts of the Ancient Americas.
This landmark exhibition which got rave reviews at the Getty Museum, features
luxury arts of the Incas, the Aztecs, and their predecessors will trace the emergence
and florescence of gold working in the ancient Americas, from its earliest appearance
in the Andes to its later develop-ments farther north in Central America and
Mexico.
This unprecedented exhibition features more than 300 works from 53 lenders in
12 countries.
We will then have a 3-course lunch in the museum’s Petrie Court dining room overlooking
Central Park.
After lunch we will have a guided tour of Fashion and The Met. We will consider
fashion throughout the ages and learn what clothes reveal to us about their wearers.
Highlighting clothing represented in stone, wood, paint, and other media found
throughout the Museum’s collections, this tour examines developments in fashion
from all over the world.
Next we will visit the first half of the new exhibition presented by the museum’s
Costume Institute, Heavenly Bodies, Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Fashions from the early 20th century to the present will be shown
in The Met's Medieval and Byzantine galleries.
We will then have high tea in the same restaurant where we had
lunch.
We will end the day seeing the second half of the costume exhibition.
Serving as the cornerstone of the exhibition, papal robes and accessories
from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been
seen outside The Vatican, will be on view in the Anna Wintour Costume
Center.
Please note there will be considerable walking for the tours but
we’ve arranged not to take stairs to the locations we will visit.
There are usually benches to rest on in most galleries.
On Saturday, May 19 we will begin the day with a Curator’s tour
with Jeannine Falino (an ASJRA advisory board member) of New York
Silver, Then and Now, at the Museum of the City of New York.
We will have a 3-course lunch at
Paolo’s restaurant and then proceed
to the Hotel Wales (a few doors away), where we will hear three
lectures (see Speaker’s Page for details).
The day will end with a reception at Koos & Co.
boutique, a few steps away from the Wales Hotel.