Advance Details of Costume Institute’s "China: Through the Looking Glass" Exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a press presentation on Monday, February 16, 2015, in the Museum’s Chinese Galleries to reveal early details about The Costume Institute’s upcoming exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, opening on May 7. 

Silas Chou, Wendi Murdoch, Anna Wintour, Wong Kar Wai and Joe Zee joined Museum President Emily K. Rafferty, Costume Institute Curator Andrew Bolton, and Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Department of Asian Art Maxwell K. Hearn in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery for a glimpse at some of the Chinese art and film, as well as high fashion, to be featured in the exhibition, on view May 7–August 16, 2015, at the Met in New York City.  

(from left) Silas Chou, Emily Rafferty, Wendi Murdoch, Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton, Wong Kar Wai, Mike Hearn, Nathan Crowley, and Joe Zee at the Met's China: Through the Looking Glass advance press event

Exhibition Artistic Director and renowned filmmaker Wong Kar Wai

Exhibition Curator Andrew Bolton of The Costume Institute

Photos Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/BFAnyc.com/Joe Schildhorn