Leslie camhi biography
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Leslie Camhi is a....
From mourning dress to the Bumster: years of fashion at the
Met Costume Institute.
About Time: Fashion and Duration, installation view. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About Time: Fashion and Duration, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue, New York City, through February 7,
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When Newland Archer, the hero of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, wants to be alone with Countess Ellen Olenska, whom he secretly loves, he suggests they meet at “the Art Museum—in the Park.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art was merely ten years old when, in , it moved from midtown to Central Park; on their visit, the couple seeks out a deserted gallery filled with moldering antiquities.
“Some day, I suppose, it will be a great Museum,” Newland sighs (with a wink from Wharton, who was writing almost forty years later, when the Met was well on its way to greatness).