Museums – Page 41

Why Is Pacsun Releasing Clothes With the Met?

The unlikely coupling of art museum and mall brand has yielded three apparel collections, with a fourth releasing this month.

By Callie Holtermann

Chloe (Fashion Label) Costume Institute Fashion and Apparel Jewish Museum (Manhattan, NY) Lowe, Ann (1898-1981) Metropolitan Museum of Art Musee des Arts Decoratifs Museums van Herpen, Iris (1984- ) Winterthur Museum

Everyone Thought He Had Made the Famous Gown. It Was His Wife.

This fall, the Metropolitan and three other museums give female designers their due.

By Vanessa Friedman

Metropolitan Museum of Art Museums Poetry and Poets Schiff, Robyn

A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk

On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous octagonal information desk.

By Maggie Lange

Finances Israel Museum Jewish Museum (Manhattan, NY) Jews and Judaism Museums Snyder, James S

International Museum Leader to Head Jewish Museum

James S. Snyder, 71, after a long career split between MoMA and the Israel Museum, will lead one of the largest museums dedicated to Jewish culture worldwide.

By Hilarie M. Sheets