Dressed to Kill at the Met Zoom Tour

Professor Andrew Lear is a world-renowned expert on sexuality in art and the author of the best-known book on sexuality in Greek vase-painting.  He is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the gay history tour company, and Shady Ladies Tours, the woman's history tour company.

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Come learn about the history of fashion and beauty standards through the ages, on this uncut version of one of our best-loved Met tours!

<h3><em>Can't make the live event? All ticket-holders receive a link to the video with a password good for 2 weeks.</em></h3><p>What is the most important theme in art, over all?  An audacious question—but there is an answer.  The biggest theme is human beauty.</p><p>But what does human beauty consist of, in art?  Regular features, clear complexion, beautiful eyes?  Actually, on the whole, the individual features of the beautiful person occupy a small amount of attention in their depictions.</p><p>What do they focus on instead?  Fashion and beauty standards—the beauty ideals of their cultural moment.  On the whole, depictions of beautiful people focus on their clothing, their hairdo, their makeup, the ways their underwear restrict and reshape their bodies.  In art (if not in life?) fashion is beauty, and beauty is fashion.</p><p>And thus, the collections in an art museum contain extraordinary histories of beauty ideals and fashion.  And what museum could do so better than the Met?  From Roman Imperial hairdos to preColumbian ear spools, from Renaissance shaving and plucking to 18th century big hair, from hoop skirts to codpieces to beauty marks—to whatever any culture has considered beautiful, for men or women—the Met has it all.</p><p>And this is the tour to see it on!  The Dressed to Kill tour has been one of our most popular tours since we launched it 5 years ago, but the online format allows it to much bigger and more varied.  So here it is:  Dressed to Kill, the uncut version. </p>

<p><strong>Prof. Andrew Lear</strong> is a renowned expert on same-sex relations in Greek and Roman antiquity. During his academic career, he taught at Harvard, Pomona College, and NYU. In recent years, he has founded Oscar Wilde Tours, the LGBTQ history and culture tour company and Shady Ladies Tours, a women's history and culture tour company. He is also working with actor/author Stephen Fry on a podcast about the "Scandals and Secrets of London's National Portrait Gallery."</p>

<h2>FAQs</h2><h3>When will the Zoom invite come?</h3><p>The Zoom invite will be in the CONFIRMATION EMAIL from your order—IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE IT IN YOUR CONFIRMATION EMAIL PLEASE MESSAGE US IMMEDIATELY. Subsequent to this, the Zoom invite will be sent to your email address at 48hrs, 2hrs, and 10mins before the event. PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM AND SOCIAL FOLDERS IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE ZOOM INVITE IN YOUR INBOX.</p><h3>If I can't make the live recording, can I watch the event at another time?</h3><p>The event will be recorded, and all ticket holders will receive a link to the recording by email the evening after the presentation, with a password to access it.  It will be available to view for 2 weeks after the live event. If you do not receive the link to the recording a couple of hours after the live event please email us—sometimes Eventbrite emails can get lost in spam/social folders.</p><h3>What time zone is the event scheduled in?</h3><p>The event is scheduled for 2pm EST (i.e. New York time). You can watch it in any time zone but please adjust to the time zone you are in.</p><h3>Refund policy?</h3><p>Refunds are available up to the start time of the event. After the start time, refunds are only available if you have been unable to access the event.</p>

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