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Alexander McQueen Show: Closing Soon, Extended Hours
Ooh, the Alexander McQueen show at the Met is now opening earlier for members and staying open later for the general public in the first week in August. Warning: the show allegedly closes August 7! That's soon! (Pro tip: go EARLY. The lines are bonkers.)
The Alexander McQueen show is bullshit, unless you're into barely concealed fascism.
Word to the wise: just wait until the Jean-Paul Gaultier show (currently in Montreal) comes to New York. It's much more worth your time (unless you're a fascistic sadist).
I can't wait till they move all that European painting and, like, Greek vases and African masks over to the old Whitney and stuff it in a closet on the third floor and make the big Met ALL CLOTHES, ALL QUEUES, ALL THE TIME.
The McQueen exhibit was AMAZING!!
The clever jamming technology the Met uses to prevent people from communicating how vile conditions are within (couldn't even use Twitter account I'd reserved for the zombie apocalypse) makes this comment late, but still hopefully helpful to others who've put off attending the show. Beware all ye who attempt to enter!!!
It's not just "bonkers," it's the worst I've ever seen the place. If you aren't a member at a certain level you will wait in a line that snakes across the entire floor, gallery after gallery. It appears to be a two hour wait. Even the benefit of membership, which entitles you to jump the line, will not help once you've gained entry to the exhibit; it's too packed to see, move or breathe at times.
Loves me some Met, but this was unnecessary. (um, timed tix?)An insult to the quiet, detail-mad genius that was Alexander McQueen. If you want to go, and you should, maybe consider the $50 Monday option.
i thought it was worth the $50 monday option. nearly empty, could get as close to the clothes and move as slowly as i wanted.
the clothes are brilliant – barely concealed fascism or no (which i really don't grok – there's fascism in properly cutting plaids so the pattern matches up? or maybe it was in the Tim Burton-inspired bondage goth of mcqueen's late-90s collections? ooh! i know! balsa wood frocks are fascist!).