A round-up of some of the latest religious developments in New York City. For example, the latest news just announced yesterday. Did you know that the most visited exhibit in the history of the Metropolitan Museum was an exhibit on the influence of religion? 1,659,647 visitors went to this year’s Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies, exceeding the prior number one show, Treasures of Tutankhamun (1978), which had 1,360,957 visitors.
Heavenly Bodies is the largest exhibition that either The Costume Institute or The Met has ever mounted, covering 60,000 square feet in 25 galleries.
In 2017, A Journey through NYC religions worked with the Museum of the City of New York to turn out viewers for their panel discussion on Faith in 5 Boros.” This was the largest turn-out that the museum has had for their lecture/panel discussions (outside those with a movie star). Religious faith is the hottest thing in the museum world. Right now, San Francisco’s de Young Museum is showing Muslim fashion. Around the world, museums have gotten the message: we live in a postsecular world, not a secular world. It is not quite a new Jerusalem or new Mecca, but New York City is no longer the “Secular City,” and even less the “Sodom and Gomorrah on the Hudson!”
Museums tell us what happened. Journey will report on what is happening right now.
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