The Met's Costume Institute unveils 'Heavenly Bodies' exhibition during preview before the Met Gala

Eons before those designers started their businesses, many major art museums started their collections with religious paintings, Bolton said. Nevertheless, “a lot of critics will talk about the political implications of the Catholic Church, which are very real, not just antigay marriage, antiabortion, there are so many aspects. That’s a different showing, a completely different showing. This show is really not about that. Part of it is the idea of aesthetics, which every religion has. But particularly in the Catholic faith, even [Pope] Benedict XVI wrote about beauty being the first sort of access to God in religion, not in the Catholic religion, the aesthetic in beauty, rather than truth, rather than doctrine is what gives you your sort of first vision of God generally…Yes, of course religion is very subjective and how one practices religion is very subjective. Even how the more than 1 billion Catholics practice Catholicism is very subjective. Some go to church, some don’t go to church. Some have a very private relationship to God. Some have a very public relationship to God.”

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