GARMENTING: COSTUME AS CONTEMPORARY ART
We have seen avant-garde fashion on runways and dress exhibitions in museums and galleries. Clothing, which exists nebulously between the commercial and artistic, has been used throughout history to express and sell diverse ideas. "Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art" explores clothing as a visual art medium, a movement that grew alongside the burgeoning genre of performance art in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition presents work by thirtyfive international artists, from established names such as Louise Bourgeois and Annette Messager to contemporary innovators including Nick Cave, Mary Sibande, Devan Shimoyama, Saya Woolfalk, Jeffrey Gibson, and Zoë Buckman. The result is a diverse array of garments, sculptures, installations, and video and performance art interspersed thematically vis à vis functionality, gender, activism, cultural difference, and performance. Overall, the exhibition asks how artists have employed dress to explore subjectivity, identity, and difference in the context of global politics and commercialism and the postmodern shi".
March 12 – August 14, 2022 Museum of Arts and Design, New York www.madmuseum.org