The Costume Institute's "About Time: Fashion and Duration" Closes February 7
Gallery View, 2020. Dress, Viktor & Rolf (Dutch, founded 1993), spring/summer 2020 haute couture; Courtesy Viktor + Rolf. Headpiece by Shay Ashual in collaboration with Yevgeny Koramblyum
About Time: Fashion and Duration, The Costume Institute's 2020 exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue, closes on Sunday, February 7. The exhibition traces 150 years of fashion, from 1870 to the present, along a disrupted timeline, in honor of the Museum's 150th anniversary. The exhibition opened on October 29, 2020, after a five-month delay due to the global health crisis.
Visit
Per government regulations, timed tickets are required for entrance to the Museum and are available at metmuseum.org. Timed exhibition tickets for About Time are available online and on site. Entry to About Time on Mondays is for Museum Members only.
Digital Content
The Museum's website, www.metmuseum.org/AboutTime, provides further information about the exhibition. Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, leads a guided tour, and also speaks about the exhibition's design in a Sunday at The Met talk with the exhibition's designer, Es Devlin. Virtual private group tours with docents are available via Zoom for a fee through February 28. Click here for more details.
The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton.
Corporate sponsorship is also provided by Condé Nast.
Additional support is provided by Michael Braun, John and Amy Griffin, Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers, the Natasha and Adar Poonawalla Foundation, and the Laura and Raymond Johnson Fund.
Credits
The exhibition is organized by Bolton with support from Amanda Garfinkel, Assistant Curator, and Jan Reeder, Curatorial Consultant. Visual artist and stage designer Es Devlin, known for creating large-scale performative sculptures and environments that fuse light, music, and language, created the exhibition design with The Met's Design Department.