" Costume Art ,"
"Thinking about this exhibition, it is about objects from across the museum being juxtaposed with garments from the Costume Institute,"
"The exhibition presents fashion as an important an important and impactful goal of expression of human figure."
"The show makes a powerful case for the body in all its forms as a work of art worthy of being seen, elevated and celebrated,"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute will open 'Costume Art' in spring 2026 in newly minted galleries. The exhibition examines the dressed body as a constant across more than 5,000 years of global art, pairing roughly 200 objects from the museum’s encyclopedic collection with historical and contemporary garments. The presentation is organized into thematic body types — the naked body, the classical body, the pregnant body, the aging body, the anatomical body and the mortal body — and explores how artists and designers have shaped, abstracted or confronted the human form. Garments and artworks will be juxtaposed to echo, mirror or challenge corporeal shapes, and the show elevates diverse bodies as works of art.
Read at Time Out New York
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