Its debut last fall in the Parisian museum caused quite the crowds, so we might have another Savage Beauty on our hands.ģ.) Paintings + fashion = 3D history trip. Also on the rise: couture! Mo' money, mo' dresses.Ģ.) There will be Impressionist works that don't often make it over to the States.įor example, it will be the first time Claude Monet's "Luncheon on the Grass" will be shown in this hemisphere, courtesy of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The rise of an upper middle-class in the era meant department stores, illustrated fashion magazines, ready-to-wear clothing, and the concept of wearing black as an urban and chic symbol instead of strictly for mourning the loss of one's husband. After the jump, a cheat sheet on the exhibit.ġ.) You're going to get a lesson in 19th-century France. If the Times is hallucinating over fluffy dresses at the Met we want in. It's called "Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity" and even the Times kind of didn't know what that meant.īut not to worry-they wrote an extremely in-depth piece about the exhibit that, saying, "it builds webs of new information and viewpoints around some of the best-known, most beloved paintings of all time," resulting in an, "almost hallucinatory swirl in which art and artifact continually change places." Woah. Tomorrow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open their latest exhibit to the public. Women in the Garden, 1866 Day Dress, 1862–64, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.Ĭlaude Monet. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years.
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