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The Winter Antiques Show marks its 62st year as the most prestigious antiques show in America, featuring the “best of the best” from antiquities through the 1960s. Held at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City, the Show provides curators, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to view and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 73...

December 9, 2015 - July 31, 2016 - This comprehensive exhibition brings together six decades of Robert Ryman’s vital paintings, ranging in date from the 1950s through the 2000s. Since the 1950s, Ryman’s works have been both readily identified and identifiable by their achromatic surfaces. Viewers see and experience these painted frequencies of light as the color white, but Ryman’s radical explorat...

November 23, 2015 - Susanne Bartsch has been a highly visible player in New York City nightlife since the 1980s. Organized by Dr. Valerie Steele, Fashion Underground explores the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene. Talk and Tours begin in the museum lobby. Reservations are required.

Film director Jennie Livingston will present her groundbreaking 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning. Filmed during the mid-to-late 1980s, this intimate portrait of the Harlem drag balls was a winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Time magazine called it “one of the most influential cultural works to come out of New York City in 40 years.” On hand for a discussion with Livingston after the screen...

Global Fashion Capitals aims to broaden the understanding of what constitutes a “fashion capital” and to expand the dialogue on the globalization of the fashion industry during the 21st century. Through over 70 objects, the exhibition explores the history of the established fashion capitals, Paris, New York, Milan, and London, followed by Tokyo and Antwerp, and the emergence of 16 new fashion citi...

October 26, 2015 - Susanne Bartsch has been a highly visible player in New York City nightlife since the 1980s. Organized by Dr. Valerie Steele, Fashion Underground explores the creative links between Bartsch’s 30 years of sartorial self-expression and its influence on the global fashion scene. Talk and Tours begin in the museum lobby. Reservations are required.

The juried exhibition will present both photographs documenting runners and the neighborhoods and fans who line city streets and have turned Marathon Sunday into a unique five-borough spectacle and cultural event. The Great Race: New York’s Marathon will largely focus on the recent past, although examples of great photographs dating back decades will also be considered. The exhibition project is b...

Jacob Riis was a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the 20th century. His then-novel idea of using photographs to illustrate the plight of the city’s poor—New York’s “other half”—established Riis as a forerunner of modern photojournalism. His photography was effective, and his work spurred legislation and new organizations that addressed housing conditions...

Global Fashion Capitals aims to broaden the understanding of what constitutes a “fashion capital” and to expand the dialogue on the globalization of the fashion industry during the 21st century. Through over 70 objects, the exhibition explores the history of the established fashion capitals, Paris, New York, Milan, and London, followed by Tokyo and Antwerp, and the emergence of 16 new fashion citi...

Join Jennifer Farley Gordon and MFIT associate curator of accessories Colleen Hill as they present Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future,a book inspired by their 2010 MFIT exhibition, Eco Fashion: Going Green. This is the first book to examine the eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, and to investigate the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back...