When’s the best time to go to The Metropolitan Museum of Art? There’s an argument to be made that, well, it’s the wintertime, when the museum’s façade glows in the cold night and the whole Upper East Side feels like a scene out of Whit Stillman ’s Metropolitan . You cannot beat The Met in Whit Stillman season. Trust me. And now the neighborhood has more juice than ever , thanks to an auction house’s full revamp of a historic museum building, record-breaking Klimts , and a newly hot restaurant scene anchored by the art world’s new clubhouse, Maxime’s. Winter uptown. Get into it. Subscribe to True Colors, Nate Freeman’s art-world dispatch. Arrow

Winter is also when The Metropolitan Museum of Art throws its annual Art & Artists Gala, a black-tie affair that raises money for

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