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Exhibition Tour—Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination | The Met Cloisters

This video is part of Exhibition Tours, a series exploring select Met exhibitions.

Join curator Andrew Bolton at The Met Cloisters for a tour of The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.

The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.

At The Met Cloisters, the exhibition focuses on designers who've been inspired by monastic orders, but also the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith.

For a tour of the exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue, click here.


Contributors

Andrew Bolton
Curator in Charge

Production credits
Director: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Sarah Cowan
Production Coordinator: Kaelan Burkett
Steadicam: Kelly Richardson
Additional Cameras: Wayne De La Roche, Sarah Cowan
Lighting Designer: Ned Hallick
Gaffers: Foster McLaughlin, Christopher Yurnet
Production Assistants: Bryan Martin, Kimberly Cionca Sebesanu
Original Music: Austin Fisher


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