Exhibition to Remain Open until Midnight on Friday and Saturday, September 2 and 3; Attendance Surpasses 2011’s McQueen Exhibition, with 664,328 Visitors to Date
Exhibition Dates:
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May 5–September 5, 2016 (extended from August 14) |
Exhibition Location:
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The Met Fifth Avenue, Robert Lehman Wing
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(New York, August 25, 2016)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today extended hours for the final weekend of the popular Costume Institute exhibition
Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology. On Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3, the exhibition will remain open to the public until midnight. The Museum normally closes at 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings. The exhibition will end its run on Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
The exhibition, which opened on May 5, has already been extended by three weeks–from August 14 to September 5–and has so far drawn more than 664,328 visitors, surpassing 2011’s
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty to become The Costume Institute’s second most attended exhibition. Last year’s
China: Through the Looking Glass, which drew 815,992 visitors, remains the department’s most popular show and The Met’s fifth most visited exhibition. The McQueen exhibition, the Museum’s ninth most popular show, drew 661,509 visitors. All three were curated by Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute.
During the extended hours, the Museum’s Great Hall Balcony Bar will be open until midnight as well, with appetizers, full bar service, and music by the ETHEL and Friends string quartet. The Met Store’s exhibition shop adjacent to the galleries will also be open, featuring a range of products inspired by the exhibition, including the exhibition catalogue and an exclusive collection of fashion accessories, jewelry, and publications. The
Manus x Machina galleries will be the only galleries in the Museum open to the public during the extended hours.
Manus x Machina explores how designers reconcile the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. It addresses the distinction between the hand (manus) and the machine (machina) as discordant tools in the creative process, and questions the changing delineation between haute couture and ready-to-wear.
The exhibition is made possible by Apple.
Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.
The exhibition is featured on The Met’s
website, as well as on
Facebook,
Instagram, and
Twitter using #ManusxMachina.
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August 25, 2016
Image: Wedding ensemble, Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Hamburg, 1938) for House of Chanel (French, founded 1913), autumn/winter 2014-15 haute couture, back view; Courtesy of CHANEL Patrimoine Collection
Photo © Nicholas Alan Cope
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