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Met Gala Boycott Message Projected on Bezos’s Manhattan Penthouse
"All working-class people deserve better than what we're getting,” a former Amazon worker told Hyperallergic ahead of this year’s gala, co-chaired by Jeff Bezos.
Costume Institute
Opinion
Will Jeff Bezos Ruin The Met’s Costume Institute?
Sponsored by the billionaire, its upcoming fashion show will “reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.” Groundbreaking!
News
With the World on Fire, the Glitterati Prepares for Met Gala 2022
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” follows last year’s theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” Confused? So are we.
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.
Art
Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."
Opinion
Shifting From Catholicism to Camp, Met Gala Tries to Update Susan Sontag
This exhibition should feature a wax replica of Donatella Versace, RuPaul's extensive collection of wigs, and a sliver of John Waters' mustache — but I fear the Met's exhibition will be business as usual.
Opinion
Early Christians Would Have Found the Met Gala Gaudy
A historian of early Christianity with a specialty in religious dress considers how the Metropolitan Museum's recent gala and new Costume Institute exhibition might align with or offend early Christian sensibilities.
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
Disinterring the Lost Glamor of Grief
Grief hit what may be its peak of glamor between 1815 and 1915. The devastating losses of the Civil War, suppression of women's rights, and Victorian and Edwardian affinity for the macabre resulted in generations of widows spending years in their dour "weeds."
News
Good Mourning: Metropolitan Museum Announces Fall Funerary Costume Show
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is hosting a fall exhibition for the first time in seven years, and it will be a decidedly somber affair. Announced today, the show focuses on Victorian and Edwardian mourning fashions.
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Good Mourning: Metropolitan Museum Announces Fall Funerary Costume Show
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is hosting a fall exhibition for the first time in seven years, and it will be a decidedly somber affair. Announced today, the show focuses on Victorian and Edwardian mourning fashions.
Opinion
Nuclear Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum
It’s clear that money is the ticket to fame and success in the world of culture, even — OK, maybe especially — if you’re not an artist. Cue the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renaming of the newly renovated, soon-to-be-opened Costume Institute as the Anna Wintour Costume Center.