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Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art 

I’m never sure what to do with art to wear (which is often art that you really can’t wear because it would be difficult to move in) and now there is a new category called costume as contemporary art, much of which does not seem intended to be worn at all. In any case, I thought I would tell you about this show at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, so you can figure it out for yourself.

The show running through August 14th, 2022 is offering what it calls “the first global survey exhibition dedicated to the use of clothing as a medium of visual art.” Which means it has some 35 artists showing 60 works, and it is going to use  “the language of fashion to challenge traditional divisions of form and function, cast a critical eye on the construction of gender, advance political activism, and address cultural difference.” So there you go.

A crochet of fall colors at Xenobia Bailey's Museum of Arts & Design artist residency, beginning today through December 17.

Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Institute for Figuring at the Museum of Art & Design

Since many of us cannot get out and see shows, I thought I would feature a museum exhibition that also has a video about how it was put together. How exactly does a group of curators decide what to put in and what to leave out?

Judith Lieber at MAD Museum Through August 6th

If you are going to NYC this summer, you can see “Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story” at the Museum of Arts and Design. Leiber worked in the handbag business for some sixty-five years  from an apprentice in Hungary to the owner of her own company in NYC. She made all kinds of bags: leather, textile, and then the wackier ones for which she is best know: encrusted with crystals and designed to look like everything from little animals to vegetables. This show contains examples from her own company which she began in 1963 until 2004 when she was done designing.

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