Fashion has always sat uncomfortably in the great art institutions of the West, the question of whether it belonged under the same roof as masterworks and...
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For years, as the Met Gala has grown ever bigger, blanketing social media with pictures of guests in their finery, smashing cultural fund-raising records, teetering tantalizingly...
Here’s a pop quiz: What do all 17 curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have in common? It isn’t oil paint or excellent air-conditioning....
Just a 10-minute walk from the flashing cameras and swarms of crowds outside the Met Gala last night, a very different sort of gala was taking...
Getting dressed for the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s star-studded yearly fund-raiser, is often a bit of a challenge. Guests want to impress, and...
Last October, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute announced its next fashion show, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the political landscape looked very different. Kamala...