Art
Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”
The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.
Alexander Cavaluzzo
Art
Viktor & Rolf Make Memeified Couture for a New Generation
Instead of designing couture that the masses would memeify, Viktor & Rolf designed memes that just happen to be couture.
Books
Bill Cunningham’s Posthumous Memoir Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect
In the beloved fashion photographer's posthumous memoir, we get a peek into his origin story.
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God Loves Versace in Met Museum’s Fashion and Catholicism Exhibit
The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.
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Displaying Kaepernick's Jersey, MoMA Threads Together Art, Fashion, and Politics
Of the iconic fashion pieces in MoMA's exhibition Items: is Fashion Modern? no item may be more important or salient to our contemporary politics than Colin Kaepernick’s jersey.
Art
The Outlandish and Beautiful Juxtapositions of Rei Kawakubo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.
Art
How Artists and Scientists Have Contended with the Cosmos Across the Centuries
The Universe and Art at the Mori Art Museum explores, with science and art, how humanity has wrestled with its place in the cosmos throughout time.
Art
Musing Over a Memoir by a Chronicler of the Downtown New York Art Scene
Tama Janowitz has emerged from seclusion to debut her first memoir, Scream.
Art
The Whimsy and Wit of Isaac Mizrahi
Oversized frog heads; a thin, silk faille gown swathed in a cotton candy-colored parka; a cacophony of plaids, polka dots, chevrons, furs, sequins, feathers, tribal prints, and religious iconography. This is the world of Isaac Mizrahi, on view at the Jewish Museum.
Art
The Evolution of Dressmaking, from Hand- to Machine-Made
A clever way of telling if a piece of clothing is a knock-off is to look at the stitching: if it’s crooked, it’s probably been hastily assembled in some sweatshop; if it’s straight, it’s been meticulously formed with the utmost sensitivity to detail in an atelier.
Art
The Fairy-Tale World of Fashion
Whether it’s the click of silver slippers or a gown of gold descending from the branches of a tree, fashion and clothing have a unique presence in fairy tales.
Art
Beautiful Surprises and Surprising Depth at Cooper Hewitt’s Design Triennial
If beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, the curators of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum faced a daunting task when they chose beauty for the latest design triennial's theme.