The Metropolitan Museum of Art chose Fashion Week to announce their upcoming exhibit, titled American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (brought to you by The Gap! No, not kidding.) The major exhibition, opening in early May, will focus on the American woman's wardrobe from 1890 to 1940.
The Museum says this is the first time they'll draw exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. They aim to explore "developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation."
According to the Guardian, the exhibition will be split in to six sections, and range from "the ball gown-wearing 'dollar princesses' of the 1890s" to Bohemians of the early 1900s, 1920s flappers, and the screen sirens of the later years. So if the future of fashion isn't your thing, stay away from Bryant Park this week and hold out for the Met in May.
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Friday
Free museums - Part 1
This is NOT a list of free days at the biggies - you can find a link over on the right column to figure that out. This is "always free" museums.
Free and Funky:
FORBES GALLERIES
Great location at 5th avenue and 12th, just up from Washington Square, which you should go and see - it's all renovated, but it's being recolonized by the locals. Forbes was crazy. See his tin soldier and toy boat collection - he sold lots of stuff when the market crashed, though. Free, and good bathrooms. They have changing modern exhibits.
The Forbes Galleries
62 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York City
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FIT Museum, Chelsea
Great Free museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave @ 25th street.
Also lectures, as in
"Ruben Toledo’s Art: From Fashion to Literature"
Thursday, October 29, 6 pm
Ruben Toledo talks about art, fashion, his wife Isabel, her influence on his work, and why “collaboration is the name of the game” for this Cuban-born artist.
ONASSIS gallery in Midtown - usually great stuff from the National Museum of Greece.
(but the big exhibit on Mycenae just left - a modern exhibit now installed. Free, in midtown, right behind the Trump Tower. lovely oasis of peace)
Hispanic Society Museum Weird and wonderful. Totally free. Goyas and Roman glass and Victorian genre paintings and wonderful antiquities. Next to Trinity Cemetery at 156th street, which has lots of mausoleums with stained glass.
"The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century"
of course you can catch NEW culture at the Museo Del Barrio on 5th avenue (being renovated)
Free and Funky:
FORBES GALLERIES
Great location at 5th avenue and 12th, just up from Washington Square, which you should go and see - it's all renovated, but it's being recolonized by the locals. Forbes was crazy. See his tin soldier and toy boat collection - he sold lots of stuff when the market crashed, though. Free, and good bathrooms. They have changing modern exhibits.
The Forbes Galleries
62 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York City
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FIT Museum, Chelsea
Great Free museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave @ 25th street.
Also lectures, as in
"Ruben Toledo’s Art: From Fashion to Literature"
Thursday, October 29, 6 pm
Ruben Toledo talks about art, fashion, his wife Isabel, her influence on his work, and why “collaboration is the name of the game” for this Cuban-born artist.
ONASSIS gallery in Midtown - usually great stuff from the National Museum of Greece.
(but the big exhibit on Mycenae just left - a modern exhibit now installed. Free, in midtown, right behind the Trump Tower. lovely oasis of peace)
Hispanic Society Museum Weird and wonderful. Totally free. Goyas and Roman glass and Victorian genre paintings and wonderful antiquities. Next to Trinity Cemetery at 156th street, which has lots of mausoleums with stained glass.
"The collections of the Hispanic Society are unparalleled in their scope and quality outside the Iberian Peninsula, addressing nearly every aspect of culture in Spain, as well as a large part of Portugal and Latin America, through the twentieth century"
of course you can catch NEW culture at the Museo Del Barrio on 5th avenue (being renovated)
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