What Radha Blank, Janicza Bravo, Regina King, and Julie Dash created for the Costume Institute is remarkable
Radha Blank’s installation, We Good. Thx! — a quilt like headpiece made with African braiding and beading techniques — in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com Over 198,000 visitors and counting have walked through In America: An Anthology of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer.
Janicza Bravo chose to show video excerpts from the 1970s film The Conformist. Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art What’s your favorite childhood memory of the Met? Blank: My mother made a point of bringing us to museums — the Museum of Natural History, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, the Guggenheim, the Met — these were all my childhood haunts. At the Met, I just remember being kind of pulled by my mother and passing these huge relics of the past. And she would let me know that some of the pieces may have been taken from the Indigenous, explaining the origin of the artwork.
Regina King enlisted Amanda Gorman and Steve Harris to read “& So” and “Call Us,” from her poetry collection Call Us What We Carry in the Richmond room, shown here. Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Matteo Prandoni/BFA.com Virgil Abloh once said, “Everything I do is for the 17-year-old version of myself.” Which I think about a lot.
Blank: It’s about inserting Black women’s voices, in particular, back into the conversation about their own survival and freedom. Maria Hollander was an abolitionist and a suffragette. It’s very likely it was a Black woman who helped to sew her dresses.
Bravo’s work also included excerpts from 1930s film Ten Minutes to Live playing in the Gothic Revival Library. Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art What is the significance of the four Black women in the exhibition?
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