According to what Gary Carrion-Murayari, the Kraus Family Senior Curator of the New Museum and the co-curator of “Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony”, stated at yesterday’s press preview, the museum has been working with artist Arthur Jafa on the creation of this exhibition since 2021. What a social climate for this exhibit, which is…
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“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” is the most culturally relevant Costume Institute exhibit that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced in years. It has already delivered the most profitable Met Gala of all time. Organized into twelve sections, with each meant to encapsulate a trait of Black style, the highly anticipated exhibit traces Black…
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The Illume fashion exhibition, centered around the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator (PFI), is currently being hosted at the InLiquid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The exhibit is broken into two portions: the primary portion is a retrospective on the work of previous Philadelphia Fashion Incubator participants over the past decade, with the second portion (pictured above)…
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Camp is an indefinable fashion concept. The 2019 Met Costume Institute spring exhibition sought to define it somewhat, which is no small task. Enter Susan Sontag. As a writer, she took on the herculean task of doing this in 1964; her work “Notes On ‘Camp'” was used in part as the basis for this…
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