The Heavenly Bodies exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York still has a few weeks to run, and I was lucky enough to catch up with it last week. While I appreciate that American Catholics have a good deal to think about at present, the exhibition, subtitled ‘Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’, represents an interesting phenomenon.
Forget, for a moment, if you can, the Met Gala, the huge party where Manhattan’s great and good, and a few out-of-place clergy, converged on the Met to mark the beginning of the exhibition. That was a distraction. The exhibition itself is a rather more serious venture.
