THREAD for THOUGHT

How fashion intersects politics, economics, gender, race & pop culture.

Posts tagged "Exhibits"
Panel Summary: ReFashioning Race, Gender, and Economy

Panel Summary: ReFashioning Race, Gender, and Economy

Presented by the Asian / Pacific / American Institute at NYU and Museum of Chinese in America June 25, 2013   Accompanying the concurrent fashion exhibitions at the Museum of Chinese in America, “Front Row: Chinese American Designers” and “Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910-40s,” the Museum hosted an ethnically and professionally diverse panel of fashion...
Collecting Clothes with a Conscience

Collecting Clothes with a Conscience

Earlier this summer I watched the tremendous documentary Herb & Dorothy (2008) which follows a ridiculously adorable, now elderly, couple (Herb and Dorothy Vogel) who started collecting art in the ’60s and amassed one of the finest and most extensive of modern and contemporary art in the world. The twist here is this: Dorothy was...
Mixing and Matching Men

Mixing and Matching Men

A couple months ago I found myself in Phillie for a family event and I was delighted, not only to spend time with my awesome extended family, but to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Always a favorite of mine (I think they’ve corned the Duchamp market), they also happened to have multiple fashion exhibits...
American Art, American Fashion. What is it, anyway?

American Art, American Fashion. What is it, anyway?

As a native Cantabrigian, I read with interest and delight the NYTimes review of the newly opened, newly expanded American Wing of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a museum I practically grew up in (my father still lectures there). I was especially intrigued by the following statement: “One can imagine arguments growing sharp in the...
A Different Take on Street Fashion Photography

A Different Take on Street Fashion Photography

A few months ago I had the delight of popping into the Met’s modestly-sized exhibition “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950–1980.” From the Met’s website description: “Leon Levinstein (1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York...
First Ladies' Dresses at the Smithsonian-- lessons learned

First Ladies’ Dresses at the Smithsonian– lessons learned

I had the last minute opportunity to visit DC last week and since I hadn’t been there since my 6th grade field trip, I thought it was high time I checked out the capital again. Perhaps I was not walking in the right neighborhoods, but I was pretty disappointed with street life and the lack...
Corporate Collaborations with the Arts

Corporate Collaborations with the Arts

Anna Wintour’s involvement with the Metropolitan Museum is reestablished at this time every year with the Met’s renowned Costume Institute gala, and we are again bombarded with pictures of A-list celebrities, socialites and models attending the lush affair. Whether attendees are portrayed in adoring light or to ridicule their outrageous outfits, the glut of coverage...
Art Deco Fashion & Social Commentary

Art Deco Fashion & Social Commentary

Yesterday I attended a lecture at the New York Public Library accompanying their current exhibit “Art Deco Design: Rhythm and Verve.”  There was another lecture on art deco architecture that I attended a few weeks ago, but this one– “Fashions of the Art Deco Era”– was tailored for me.  Paula Baxter, curator of the exhibit...
Kirchner & the Berlin Street

Kirchner & the Berlin Street

One of the few advantages of working in midtown is that I am just a couple minutes jaunt away from the MoMA, and every once in awhile, I actually take my full hour lunch break to soak up some visual culture. Yesterday I fought my way through the rainy day museum-attending mob (I believe it’s...
MAD Museum Opening Event & Exhibit

MAD Museum Opening Event & Exhibit

I attended the grand re-opening of the Museum of Design (somewhat humorously abbreviated to “MAD Museum”) at it’s new location on Columbus Circle, an event I had been hotly anticipating even before I received an invitation to the party; I love all sorts of crafts, and textile arts are often included under this broad header....
"Arbiters of Style" tour at FIT

"Arbiters of Style" tour at FIT

I attended a lecture at the Museum at FIT last week.  I’d visited the exhibition “Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion” a couple months ago and thought it was a little weak (my usual complaint: “not enough signage!”, but I went to the tour believing that if I got more information about...
Superheroes Attack!

Superheroes Attack!

Style.com listed “Superhero Worship” as one of its major Fall 2008 trends: “At about the same time that the Met will be putting its superhero paraphernalia back in storage, fashion-forward females will be preparing to unleash their new Fall power ensembles– a futuristic Balenciaga dress, for instance, or a caped jacket from Rick Owens. Pieces...