Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Join us for a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City! Enjoy a guided tour of the Met’s Modern & Contemporary Art, and explore numerous special exhibitions on your own, including Sargent & Paris, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, and Jesse Krimes: Corrections, and more!

Sargent and Paris

Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous success at the Paris Salon. A beloved highlight of The Met collection, the exhibition will take an in-depth look at Madame X and the numerous preparatory sketches, and it will be displayed alongside select portraits of Parisiennes by Sargent’s contemporaries.

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition will present a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy, from the figure’s emergence in Enlightenment Europe during the 18th century to today’s incarnations in cities around the world. Historically, the term dandy was used to describe someone—often a man—who is extremely devoted to style and approaches it as a discipline. The exhibition will tell the Black dandy’s story over time through a range of media, offering a history and description of Black dandyism as a discrete phenomenon that reflects broader issues of power & race in the Black diaspora.

Jesse Krimes: Corrections

This exhibition presents immersive contemporary installations by the artist Jesse Krimes (American, b. 1982, a graduate of Millersville University) alongside nineteenth-century photographs from The Met collection by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, who developed the first modern system of criminal identification before the adoption of fingerprinting. Krimes’s image-based installations, made over the course of his six-year incarceration, reflect the ingenuity of an artist working without access to traditional materials.

Lunch

Lunch will be on your own at one of the Met’s cafes or restaurants, and is not included in the price of the trip. A full list of menus is available on the Met’s website at metmuseum.org/plan-your-visit/dining.

Itinerary

• 7:30 - depart Lancaster (leaving from Lancaster Shopping Center, 1515 Lititz Pike, facing Oregon Pike)

• 11:00 - arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• 12:00 - meet at main entrance for guided tour of the Met’s Modern & Contemporary Art

• 1:00 - free time to explore galleries and eat lunch

• 3:00 - depart Metropolitan Museum of Art

• 6:30 - arrive in Lancaster

Price: $160 members, $175 non-members

Includes museum admission and guided tours, transportation, snacks, taxes, & driver gratuities

Deadline for Registration: Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Refund Policy: The museum we are visiting requires ticket reservations and non-refundable payment several weeks in advance. Should you need to cancel your participation in this trip, we are able to offer a 50% refund through Wednesday, April 23. After April 23, no refunds will be available but if you still need to cancel we can convert your bus trip ticket to a tax deductible donation if you wish.

Image: Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, oil on board, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC