Met Museum show at new Costume Institute puts fashion in same spotlight as Egyptian artefacts
Summary
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a new, larger space for its Costume Institute exhibitions called the Condé Nast Galleries, near the museum’s Great Hall. The spring exhibition, "Costume Art," displays 200 fashion items alongside 200 artworks from the Met to explore how fashion and art interact, focusing on diverse body types and challenging traditional ideas about fashion and the body.Key Facts
- The Costume Institute has moved to a 12,000 square foot new gallery, three times larger than its previous space.
- The new galleries place fashion exhibits in a prominent location at the Met, close to the Great Hall.
- The current exhibition, "Costume Art," pairs 200 garments and accessories with 200 artworks from the museum’s collection.
- Curator Andrew Bolton organized the exhibition around 13 themes related to different body types, starting from the nude body.
- The show features fashion that highlights underrepresented body shapes, including designs that emphasize fat, disability, and abstract forms.
- Mannequins displaying diverse body types are placed on high platforms to draw attention to inclusivity in fashion.
- The exhibit aims to rethink how fashion relates to art, suggesting the dressed body is a key part of the museum’s collection.
- The exhibition launch was sponsored by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos, which caused some controversy.
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