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New York, NY (October 24, 2022)
NEW YORK, NY (October 24, 2022) – On Monday, November 14, beginning at 5:30 pm, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will hold its annual MAD Ball gala at the Museum’s home at 2 Columbus Circle, New York. The benefit will honor renowned multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson and esteemed New York gallerist Cristina Grajales while celebrating the institution’s mission to champion contemporary makers across creative fields.
The gala dinner will be hosted by New York comedian, beloved cabaret performer, and actor Murray Hill, and the celebration will spill into all of the Museum’s spaces and galleries, where guests may view current exhibitions. Highlights of the evening will include a conversation between MAD Windgate Research Curator Christian Larsen and Cristina Grajales in The Theater at MAD; cocktails in the Luminaries Lounge, specially designed with items from the Shantell Martin x HOEK limited-edition collab and featuring music by DJ Timo Weiland; open galleries with art-making activities; and dinner at Robert restaurant.
In September of this year, the Brooklyn-based sustainable furniture company Hoek Home launched a new artist collaboration program by debuting a limited-edition line with renowned artist Shantell Martin
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The show grew from a gift from Torontonian Carole Tanenbaum, who gave the MFA her substantial costume jewelry collection in 2018. Plans to build an exhibition around it started soon after, Emily Stoehrer, the MFA’s jewelry curator told me; but like a lot of things, the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 bumped it into limbo. The MFA added a new curator of fashion arts, theo tyson, in 2021; tyson and Stoehrer worked together to conceive a more expansive frame for the Tanenbaum gift to include never-before-shown pieces from the museum’s fashion collection, and “Dress Up,” with its more than 150 distinct bits, was born.
True to concept, the show begins with a theatrical gesture: Three lithe female mannequins stand just inside the entry, on a broad black plinth that’s unmistakably a stage. Against a storm-gray wall, slim right-angled black bars frame each from behind, a graphic visual strategy that amps up the performative air.
On the left, a frock of liquid gold by designer Bob Mackie drapes one of the mannequins, cascading from its closed neckline down to tight wrist cuffs, and to the floor; on the right is a shimmery midriff-baring silver-toned gown by Alexander McQueen. Commanding center stage is Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Big In Japan ensemble,” from 2019, an all-silk affai
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