{"id":4545,"date":"2015-08-31T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:02:46","slug":"china-through-the-looking-glass-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/china-through-the-looking-glass-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"China:  Through the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most divine dresses in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2015\/china-through-the-looking-glass\" title=\"Met Museum\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>&rsquo;s exhibition of China-inspired Western fashions is this evening gown by Guo Pei in the museum&rsquo;s Chinese Buddhist sculpture galleries. Though the model&rsquo;s dress incorporates a lotus throne like the sculpture, it doesn&rsquo;t seem to advocate any rejection of worldly pleasures. (Through Sept 7th). <\/p>\n<p><em>Guo Pei, Evening Gown, spring\/summer 2007, Haute Couture, gold lame embroidered with gold and silver silk, metal and sequins.<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/11020662\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/11020662\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/9a29d16a-a981-4138-a883-ef655dd523ce?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most divine dresses in the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s exhibition of China-inspired Western fashions is this evening gown by Guo Pei in the museum&rsquo;s Chinese Buddhist sculpture galleries. Though the model&rsquo;s dress incorporates a lotus throne like the sculpture, it doesn&rsquo;t seem to advocate any rejection of worldly pleasures. (Through Sept 7th). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/china-through-the-looking-glass-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China:  Through the Looking Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,18,3165,2916,5126,1225,5130,5128,2032,97,5127,5129,5131,289,1450,10,16,2304],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-buddha","tag-buddhist","tag-china-through-the-looking-glass-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art","tag-design","tag-dress","tag-evening-gown","tag-fashion","tag-galleries","tag-guo-pei","tag-haute-couture","tag-lotus","tag-met-museum","tag-museum-tour","tag-sculpture","tag-tour","tag-upper-east-side"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/file30.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1bj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}