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.”
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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.
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Russian Artist Arrives Nude in Glass Box at Met Gala, Gets Arrested
The stunt was the latest in a series of guerrilla performances that Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich began in 2015.
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Four Lingering Questions from Last Night’s Metropolitan Museum Gala
The fashion world’s elite came out last night in what is likely one of the most important events in the industry, as well as a huge fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.