Image Credit: Dawn of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 2012.
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Notes from the Field: Schiaparelli and Prada at The Met’s Costume Institute
“Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations,” which opens today, May 10, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been long awaited by those eager to see firsthand the ties that bind these two women from very different generations. Elsa Schiaparelli came to fame in Paris amidst the Surrealist milieu of the 1920s and 1930s, at times [...]
Alison Bechdel’s Library of Books
Congratulations to Alison Bechdel, whose newest book, Are You My Mother?, publishes today. We can’t wait to read this book, and have been thrilled by the marvelous attention its author has gotten recently, including a New Yorker profile by Judith Thurman, a Time profile by Lev Grossman, a fabulous book review in Entertainment Weekly, and [...]
Curator Helen Evans Tours the Objects of Byzantium and Islam
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th – 9th Century), the revelatory exhibition now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accompanied by a rich catalogue of the same title), was recently lauded in the New York Times, praised specifically for “offering a soothing picture of artistic continuity.” The massive undertaking demonstrates the interconnectedness [...]
Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. Last year, Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect widely known for her dynamic and innovative work, was invited to join the committee of judges for the Pritzker. If that is not evidence enough of the ever-increasing influence of Hadid’s design [...]
Changing How We See Native American Art
Native fashion is hip: Native American costumes are sold by the thousands every Halloween, partygoers and celebrities are photographed donning pasted feather headdresses, and some sports teams still brand themselves using Native American themes. Although some argue that these actions express admiration rather than disrespect, cultural appropriations such as these can reinforce Native American stereotypes, [...]
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