The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute features 'In America' exhibit
WHAT YEAR: While millions wouldn't want to go back in the past 12 months for obvious pandemic reasons, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken a count and has a lot to show.
Last fall, the Upper East Side Museum unveiled the first part of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" to much fanfare. The exhibition was a kind of vocabulary on American fashion that highlighted a multitude of designers, including many young, emerging and little known. In March, 70% of the exhibit was refreshed so that the work of approximately 35 designers could be added to the rotation.
The second part of the year-long show bowed in the spring. Titled "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," it examined some of the intricacies of American fashion history and was staged in the period rooms of the museum's American Wing. Spanning from the 18th century to the present day, Part Two drew on the talents of renowned filmmakers such as Sofia Coppola, Chloe Zhao, Martin Scorsese, Janicza Bravo and Tom Ford, among others.
Related GalleriesIt seems the Costume Institute's first year-long exhibition was well worth the wait. While the 12-month period was planned before the pandemic, the timing turned out to be fortuitous since, as with many museums large and small, attendance at the Met had been reduced during the pandemic due to temporary closures and restrictions. of capacity related to COVID-19.< /p>
Combined, the first episode of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion", its refresh and "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" attracted 947,465 visitors. Overall, this makes "In America" the fourth most attended exhibition.
However, the Costume Institute's 2018 exhibit "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" is still on. headlining. With more than 1.6 million visitors, this religiously themed show ranked first among the Met's most-visited exhibits. The second - the 1978 “Treasures of Tutankhamun” attracted 1.36 million visitors, and the 1963 show for the “Mona Lisa”. Like "In America", the museum's "Heavenly Bodies" were housed in two locations - although one further away than the American Wing - further north in New York, at the Met Cloisters.
Although the last Costume Institute is officially over, this weekend is the last chance to catch "An Anthology of Cinema" at the Metrograph on the Lower East Side. In collaboration with the Costume Institute's "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," the filmmakers involved in the second installment selected films to show at the theater. "The Fountainhead" and "Leave Her to Heaven" will air on Saturday and "The Portrait of a Lady" will be the finale on Sunday.
WHAT YEAR: While millions wouldn't want to go back in the past 12 months for obvious pandemic reasons, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken a count and has a lot to show.
Last fall, the Upper East Side Museum unveiled the first part of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" to much fanfare. The exhibition was a kind of vocabulary on American fashion that highlighted a multitude of designers, including many young, emerging and little known. In March, 70% of the exhibit was refreshed so that the work of approximately 35 designers could be added to the rotation.
The second part of the year-long show bowed in the spring. Titled "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," it examined some of the intricacies of American fashion history and was staged in the period rooms of the museum's American Wing. Spanning from the 18th century to the present day, Part Two drew on the talents of renowned filmmakers such as Sofia Coppola, Chloe Zhao, Martin Scorsese, Janicza Bravo and Tom Ford, among others.
Related GalleriesIt seems the Costume Institute's first year-long exhibition was well worth the wait. While the 12-month period was planned before the pandemic, the timing turned out to be fortuitous since, as with many museums large and small, attendance at the Met had been reduced during the pandemic due to temporary closures and restrictions. of capacity related to COVID-19.< /p>
Combined, the first episode of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion", its refresh and "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" attracted 947,465 visitors. Overall, this makes "In America" the fourth most attended exhibition.
However, the Costume Institute's 2018 exhibit "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" is still on. headlining. With more than 1.6 million visitors, this religiously themed show ranked first among the Met's most-visited exhibits. The second - the 1978 “Treasures of Tutankhamun” attracted 1.36 million visitors, and the 1963 show for the “Mona Lisa”. Like "In America", the museum's "Heavenly Bodies" were housed in two locations - although one further away than the American Wing - further north in New York, at the Met Cloisters.
Although the last Costume Institute is officially over, this weekend is the last chance to catch "An Anthology of Cinema" at the Metrograph on the Lower East Side. In collaboration with the Costume Institute's "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," the filmmakers involved in the second installment selected films to show at the theater. "The Fountainhead" and "Leave Her to Heaven" will air on Saturday and "The Portrait of a Lady" will be the finale on Sunday.
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