Visits: 44 The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten. Last October, when it was announced that Sarah Burton was leaving Alexander McQueen, the house she …
Louvre Abu Dhabi Adds Regional Treasures to a Cartier Show
Visits: 48 The exhibition, first staged in Paris, now has pieces from the al-Sabah and al-Thani collections. Jewelry and crafts from the Muslim world tell the story of one European jewelry house’s fascination with Middle Eastern culture and design in …
A View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk
Visits: 39 On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk. During a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, …
Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.
Visits: 42 This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due. It is one of those ironies rarely discussed in the fashion industry — that a world focused largely on catering to (or exploiting, depending on …
Zucchini to Go at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Home and 125 Years of the Parrish Art Museum
Visits: 21 On Saturday night in the Hamptons, Goop and Gucci held an intimate dinner, while the museum hosted a gala. “Careful!” Gwyneth Paltrow called to her daughter, Apple Martin, who was walking in black Gucci heels down a stone …
Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 Met Gala
Visits: 38 From the theme to the dress code, from official hosts to likely guests: Here’s what we know so far about the party of the year. First things first: What is the Met Gala? Officially, it’s the Metropolitan Museum …
Will the Era of Butts Ever End?
Visits: 19 A new book takes a look back at the posterior’s cultural role throughout history. From the title of Heather Radke’s new book “Butts: A Backstory,” and its cover image of a ripe, callipygian peach, one might expect a …
What Makes a Room Unforgettable?
Visits: 28 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Ace Hotel New York. The Chicago Athletic Association. The NoMad hotel in London. Goop’s store in Los Angeles. The Reykjavik Edition hotel, in Iceland. The Boom Boom Room. These are all some …
Art, Darling
Visits: 30 Antwaun Sargent sat nursing a Negroni at Frankies Spuntino, his haunt in Brooklyn, as he described the perks of his multilayered career. “I had dinner with Madonna,” he said on a recent Friday. “Coming of age as a …
The Once and Future Handbag
Visits: 32 In a case of truly unfortunate timing, the week before the Victoria and Albert Museum’s blockbuster show celebrating all things bag related — an exhibition over 18 months in the making, one of the largest ever in a …