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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrated the Costume Institutes’ Fall Exhibition Women Dressing Women
On the Upper East Side, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an evening cocktail reception to fête the Costume Institutes fall 2023 exhibition, Women Dressing Women, co-curated by Mellissa Huber and Karen Van Godtsenhoven. The exhibition features looks from The Met’s permanent collection and explores the creative legacy of women fashion designers, tracing a lineage of makers from the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day designers, emerging voices, and forgotten histories alike.
“We had a sort of multi-tiered approach to curating Women Dressing Women. We knew that anything that we showed, we wanted to either already own or collect to bring into the collection. We had our incredible permanent collection at the Costume Institute to draw from as our starting point,” co-curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven told Vogue. “When collecting new pieces, we tried to focus on including just as many designers as possible, creating a nice assortment across time, which we organized around this broader trajectory looking at not only women’s role in fashion but fashion’s role for women too, through four critical notions of anonymity, visibility, agency, and absence or omission.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to make the announcement on Thursday, including a 5% budget increase for all national museums and art galleries.
She is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support.
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.
The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.
Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.
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brand-new private museum to its ranks – PoMo, short for Post Office Modern. Its mission is to make art more accessible, challenge gender inequality in collections, and boost the region’s cultural scene.
Set in an Art Nouveau building that used to serve as the city’s post office, PoMo spans five floors and 4,000 square metres. The space is a product of the vision and personal art collection of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan, who’ve spent over two decades collecting works from artists like Simone Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, and Franz West. Ole Robert, who’s also a co-owner of the Norwegian retail and finance giant Reitan AS, believes art should be for everyone
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