Brooklyn Museum Features American High Style, 5/6

The Brooklyn Museum will we featuring American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, which will be on view May 7 through August 1, 2010.  The exhibition includes some eighty-five masterworks from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of the designs have never been on public view; others have not been displayed in more than twenty years.

A simultaneous exhibition, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first at The Metropolitan Museum to be drawn from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, will be on view at the Met from May 5 through August 15, 2010.

The Brooklyn Museum presentation features masterpieces dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, augmented by a selection of accessories, drawings, sketches, and other fashion-related materials. Jan Glier Reeder, Consulting Curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum Chief Curator Kevin Stayton will be on hand to answer questions.

The exhibition is supported by Lisa and Dick Cashin, Barbara and Richard Debs, Cheryl and Blair Effron, Arline and Norman Feinberg, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, Barbara and Richard Moore, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin, and Barbara M. and John L. Vogelstein.

For additional information, visit: www.brooklynmuseum.org.

The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned Permanent Collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Only a 30-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan, with its own newly renovated subway station, the Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo.