THE MET COSTUME INSTITUTE BALL: “Let Them Eat Cake” May 4
DATELINE: New York City, Monday, May 1, 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of “ART”
The ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Crowd Gathers in New York City on Fifth Avenue
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume’s Institute Ball was held on Monday night in New York City. The scene was reminiscent of a time shortly after Caligula accepted the powers of the Principate conferred upon him by the Roman Senate after Tiberius’ death and the commencement of the collapse of the Roman Empire. Or maybe like the elites who dined in quite solitude in the last moments of the Weimar Republic as the Third Reich rose up quietly around them. Or better still in your memory banks and mine, maybe it was more like a scene out of the Godfather as the Cuban elites dined with Batista in the last hours of his regime while Castro’s revolutionaries stormed the gate — the “Let Them Eat Cake” crowd gathered in New York City on Monday night as the people were starving in the streets amidst high unemployment.
The annual gathering of the uber-fashionable elite, at what has been called ‘The Oscars of the East Coast’, in the media capital of the world, New York City has turned the once fabled Museum of Art, already labeled a relative ‘Rogue’s Gallery’ into a den of narcissism for the already over glorified and media obsessed charlatans of American “culture.” We may some day remember this period in American history as the one where the gluttonous, but nevertheless thin, gathered in the media capital of the world to dine then binge and purge on numerous servings of flash bulbs, praise and air kisses as they fawned over each other’s greatness. Yes on Monday night, the “Let them Eat Cake” crowd gathered at the storied Met Museum and the only thing missing was Marie Antoinette blowing air kisses from the top steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, styled in Alexander McQueen or more appropriately Chanel crowing to the fashionably subservient “let them eat cake” before entering to worship at the proverbial Golden Calf. Oh wait, excuse me, I forgot Anna Wintour was there. Never mind. In fact, upon being reminded by a local journalist, one actually granted access to HRH The Royal Vogue of Wintour, that the people could not dress in Alexander McQueen, the high priestess of fashion couture, who fortunately could not see the people nor the people her from inside the covered tent firmly ensconced on city property right on Fifth Avenue, muttered ”then why not Gucci, Prada or even Versace?”
scallywag May 5
Monday night was the night of Narcissist. Or to those uninitiated to the ways of media starved children – the Metropolitan Museum’s Whore Costume GALA. In essence, festivities revolved around an esteemed collective of individuals who got to pat themselves on the back, blow air kisses to their favorite photographers, more than ever compliant press agents and exalt in their own natural wonder and wart free existence. For anyone else walking down the street it would have come off as just another fancy gala, but to those of you who trade score sheets on PMC, tip sheets and fawning media outlets – it was just another day at the office…
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STEVE SANDS May 5
Congrats for having the balls to stand up to the MET, their corrupt tentacles run deep with the city’s power elite. While most other ‘journalists’ drool at the glamour of celebrity and overlook the corruption, Manhattan Society digs deep into the very disturbing, corrupt MET infrastructure discussed in Michael Gross’ book “ROGUES GALLERY”
More needs to be noted on the histrionics of the Met Costume ball, especially after Vogue and Anna Wintour took over. More glamour for sure but the behind the scenes power plays and bullying of many members of the media trying to cover the event which takes place the public streets are down right Orwellian.
Harold Holtzer makes $338,732 per year as PR chief for the museum, just to say NO! among other chores. That’s a lot of money for what appears to be at face value a non profit institution that seems to funnel in tax breaks, public funding as well as charitable donations. Surely a study of the financials of this institution, especially the expenditures, will paint a better tableau on what we all know to be historically one of the cities most corrupt institutions.
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