Culture Club: Museum Outing

Please join the Culture Club in visiting the Museum at FIT for the exhibition, Art X Fashion. The club will meet in the lobby of Maxwell Hall and go down to the museum together.

"Art X Fashion is a major exhibition exploring the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion—typically considered a "decorative" or "applied" art. Curated by Dr. Elizabeth Way, curator of Costume and Accessories, and featuring 140 garments, textiles, and accessories from The Museum at FIT’s permanent collection, this exhibition traces fashion and art's parallel aesthetics from 18th-century rococo to late-20th-century postmodernism. Utilizing the theoretical framework developed by art and fashion historian Dr. Christopher Richards, Art X Fashion invites viewers to consider the much-asked question, "Is fashion art?" through historic and contemporary examples. Further themes explore the overlapping art-and-fashion work of artists, such as Salvador Dalí, Sonia Delaunay, Kerry James Marshall, Antonio Lopez, and Pablo Picasso, and fashion designers, including Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake, Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Vivienne Tam, as well as the ways artists use fashion to shape their identities and expand their cultural significance." (Website for the text: https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/?exhibitions=upcoming)

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