Much like my beloved Hayward Gallery in London does on occasion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a rooftop installation every summer. This year Tomás Saraceno has created a series of interconnected, mirrored modules called Cloud City.

The mirrors on the outside of the structure reflect amazing views of NYC, as well as the sky, meaning that it looks markedly different depending on when you visit. It’s held together with a series of bungee cords, which look like spider webs.

With timed tickets you can climb up into the structure and experience it from inside. Sadly, bags and cameras aren’t allowed so no photos of that. I probably wouldn’t have wanted to take any anyway, it’s remarkably disorientating. I felt a weird sickness in my lower belly the whole time I was inside and wanted both hands free to make sure I didn’t topple over in the confusion between what my feet felt and what my eyes saw. It’s pretty amazing though. I loves me an installation.

After Cloud City my companions and I headed to sample some of the rest of the museum, though the Metropolitan is enormous so we only saw a tiny sample of what’s on offer.

There are a huge amount of creepy Jesus statues on display. Sadly people didn’t seem to pay much attention to the proportions of babies 500 years ago… Or perhaps they thought baby Jesus was born a tiny, yet fully formed man.

Diana, originally commissioned for the top of a weather vane in Madison Square Garden.

After we’d reached our threshold of enjoyment we headed off to find some food. Happily we stumbled across the adorable Lexington Candy Shop on the Upper East Side, a proper old school diner which served the most delicious vanilla milkshake I’ve had for years.

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