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Monday, 15 September 2014 13:32

An Upcoming Exhibition at the Met’s Costume Institute will Focus on the Far East

John Galliano for House of Dior, fall/winter 1997-98. John Galliano for House of Dior, fall/winter 1997-98. Nick Knight / Trunk Archive

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is going east — far east, for The Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition, to be titled “Chinese Whispers: Tales of the East in Art, Film, and Fashion.”

Incorporating the realms of fine and filmic art from the Department of Asian Art, the summer show will explore how China has fueled the creative imagination of designers all over the world for centuries, resulting in layers of cultural translations, re-translations, and, of course, mistranslations.

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