THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY film review

– By Cate Marquis –

THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY is celebrity-filled, behind-scenes look at Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2015 exhibition ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’

Is fashion art? That question is raised in the documentary THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY. Actually, director Andrew Rossi’s documentary focuses less on that philosophical debate that on the preparations for Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2015 art exhibition “China: Through the Looking Glass” and the gala party that opened would mark its debut. The exhibit, curated by Andrew Bolton, represented a first-time collaboration between the New York museum’s Chinese art collection and gallery, in the museum’s main upper level and part of its mainstream fine art holdings, and the museum’s Costume Institute, considered by traditionalists as decorative arts rather than fine art, and housed in the museum’s lower level. The exhibit was the Costume Institute’s annual event, but the first time it had teamed with any fine art section and moved into the main level. It will also be the Costume Institute’s largest ever exhibit, three times larger than previously, honoring the influence of Chinese art on Western fashions.

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