Phillip Denny

Phillip Denny is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.

Visual beauty is a given, if not a prerequisite for any summer Costume Institute exhibition, each edition of which is unofficially guaranteed to be a blockbuster. But Andrew Bolton’s curatorial aim for Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion lies beyond merely catering to the eye—that’s too easy.
Installation view: Sleeping Muse, Constantin Brancusi (French, 1876 - 1957) , 1910 ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949 (49.70.225) © Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved (ARS) 2024 . Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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