"It's a show that can really live in fascinating ways at the museum and can pull from all different areas of our collection - paintings, sculpture, drawings,"
"I hope we all agree that fashion is art,"
"But actually I think the exhibition ... will make it obvious how fashion is actually happening, so to say, all across the museum and in all different mediums already."
"from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute will present "Costume Art," a 2026 exhibition pairing garments with objects from across the museum to reveal fashion's ties to other art forms. The presentation will juxtapose clothing with paintings, sculpture, drawings and other media to trace connections through art history. Curator Andrew Bolton will organize the show thematically around different body types, including the "Naked Body," the "Classical Body," the "Pregnant Body" and the "Aging Body." The exhibition will highlight relationships that range from formal and aesthetic to political, symbolic and playful, and will launch with the Met Gala.
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