The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced its next fashion exhibit will be“Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion”, scheduled to open on November 8th. The show will feature the museum’s new acquisitions from the past decade, exploring techniques, trends, and materials that have shaped fashion from the 18th century to the present.
In this article from Artwire about the upcoming exhibit, curator Andrew Bolton explains that the Costume Institute’s mission is “to present fashion as a living art that interprets history, becomes part of the historical process, and inspires subsequent art.” The Institute now has a collection of over 35,000 costumes and accessories. This recent report from CBS news further describes fashion’s growing presence in museum collections.
But does fashion really belong in museums? Is it art? This Fall, students at the Center for Applied Liberal arts will explore these questions as they take take a behind-the-scenes look at fashion exhibitions in NYC’s most prestigious institutions, including the Museum of the City of New York, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Cooper-Hewitt (and yes, the Met as well).
For more information and to register for this course:
Other courses:
Women Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art of the Afro-Atlantic: From Eeckhout to the Present
An Introduction to Abstract Art
sounds interesting.