You could say the video is about breasts. Except that to say so sounds terribly crass, and pandering and provocative. But it is what it is: postmodern body parts filtered through the prism of hip-hop ...

This time it’s personal . . . . It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer. Active looking is more than encouraged, it’s ...

Before Ana Mendieta, the Cuban American artist, became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, in 1983, she’d never had a studio of her own. Five years earlier, as an ambitious twenty-nine-year-old, ...

Curator Andrew Bolton says the exhibition will chart the ways the human body connects art and fashion across the museum’s collections—and inaugurate the Costume Institute's new permanent 12,000-square ...

Fashion is coming out of the basement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Announced today, “Costume Art,” the spring 2026 exhibition at the Costume Institute, will mark the inauguration of the nearly ...

Rarely can you talk about fashion without invoking the human form—and at the Costume Institute’s 2026 spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that entwinement comes into sharp focus.

This weekend, bodypainting enthusiasts will descend on the Triad for events in Greensboro and Winston-Salem that celebrate the art of painting images directly on the human body. In Greensboro, the ...