Very appreciative to The Observer for publishing my first op-ed, “How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking.”
The piece reflects on exhibition-making as a space where fashion, art, science, architecture, performance, sound, and the natural world can enter into dialogue — and where museums can create experiences that move beyond display toward wonder, transformation, and discovery.
Written through the lens of “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses” at the Brooklyn Museum.
See observer.com for the full article.
And special thanks to Hannah Gottlieb-Graham and Sabina Habib at ALMA, and to Taylor Maatman and Danielle Villaluna at the Brooklyn Museum, for their thoughtful support and collaboration throughout this extraordinary opening week.
#IrisVanHerpen #BrooklynMuseum #TheObserver
#FashionCurator #MatthewYokobosky
A quiet moment during rehearsal with Iris van Herpen inside “Sculpting the Senses” at the Brooklyn Museum. Tomorrow, Iris begins a series of participatory performances within the exhibition — titled” Sculpting the (Un)Spoken”.
One of the many extraordinary dimensions of this project has been witnessing how fluidly Iris moves between fashion, performance, art, and architecture.
#IrisVanHerpen #SculptingTheSenses #BrooklynMuseum
This afternoon at Dover Street Market … a conversation with Iris van Herpen and Andy Battaglia on fashion as a space of experimentation - where technology, nature, movement, and the imagination converge.
Wonderful to experience such curiosity and engagement in the room ahead of the public opening of “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses” at the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday.
Thanks to @evemariekuijstermans@kecia_benvenuto@taylormaatman@sara_chenoweth@style.by.sabinakahn@doverstreetmarketnewyork
Photos: @markhjacobson TY!!
#IrisVanHerpen #SculptingTheSenses #BrooklynMuseum #DoverStreetMarket #MatthewYokobosky
A beautiful afternoon above Manhattan celebrating Iris van Herpen and “Sculpting the Senses” at a luncheon hosted by Ahmed Dadou, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York..
Wonderful to gather with friends, supporters, and collaborators — including Lauren Amos, Salvador Breed, and colleagues from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs — in honor of Iris’s extraordinary vision and the opening week of the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Dutch spirit of innovation, experimentation, and elegance was very much in the air today.
#IrisVanHerpen #SculptingTheSenses #BrooklynMuseum #DutchDesign DutchConsulate
An extraordinary evening at the Brooklyn Museum celebrating the Brooklyn Artists Ball and “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses”.
Friends, artists, patrons, performers, and visionaries — many wearing Iris van Herpen — transformed the museum into a living extension of the exhibition itself. TY Coco Rocha, Lauren Amos, Lizzie Tisch, Karen Gillian, IVH, Peggy Gou, Jane Poon, Petra, and Jordan Roth … for all looking great tonight!
Members previews continue this week before the exhibition opens to the public Saturday, May 16.
#IrisVanHerpe #BrooklynMuseum #Couture #PeggyGou #CocoRocha
Entering the final stretch for “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Gala celebrations, members previews, and moments of wonder before the exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, May 16.
A world where fashion, art, science, and the body converge in extraordinary ways.
Karen Elson modeling IRIS VAN HERPEN
“Ensemble”, autumn/winter 2011-12
#IrisVanHerpen #SculptingTheSenses #BrooklynMuseum #FashionExhibition #KarenElson
An evening at “Costume Art” at the Met — meaningful to encounter works from the Brooklyn Museum collection (pic 2, #CharlesJames and more) in dialogue with contemporary designers including Iris van Herpen (pic 1) and Olivier Theyskens (pic 3).
Always a pleasure to experience fashion through another curatorial lens.
Pic: TY @PCChandra
#CostumeArt #IrisVanHerpen
#BrooklynMuseum #MatthewYokobosky
“Kid A Mnesia” at the Brooklyn Navy Yard - a
“motion picture theater” that sits somewhere between exhibition, installation, and concert hallucination.
Four-screen projections,saturated lighting, drifting fog — the space dissolves into atmosphere, image, and sound. Not quite cinema, not quite immersive spectacle... something more spatial, more disorienting, more felt than watched. A reminder that when music becomes environment, it changes how we see - and how we move through space.
#Radiohead #KidAMnesia #BrooklynNavyYard
Preset from Robert Wilson’s “Moby Dick”. with music by Anna Calvi—and the applause that followed.
I find myself wondering whether Wilson’s productions will continue to be revived in the years ahead — their visual language carrying forward across generations.
#RobertWilson #AnnaCalvi #MobyDick #Theater #BAM
29th Annual Iris Awards — Bard Graduate Center
Honored to receive the Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar Award alongside John Guy and William & Ellen Taubman.
Grateful to Susan Weber (2nd image, center) and the Bard Graduate Center for their enduring commitment to the decorative arts and material culture.
And to share the afternoon with Huma Abedin and Zoran—made it all the more meaningful.
Photo 1: @smatkins2013 TY!
#IrisAwards #BardGraduateCenter #DecorativeArts #MaterialCulture #MatthewYokobosky
Many Thanks to Susan Weber and Bard Graduate Center for the invitation to present the 29th annual Iris Awards lecture. My title: Staged Fashion: Wonder and the Culture of Display
Grateful to everyone who attended and engaged so thoughtfully—an inspiring audience and great conversations.
And then the Q&A… where I was reminded just how much I talk with my hands.
Photos: Zoran
#BardGraduateCenter #IrisAwards #StagedFashion #MatthewYokobosky
The late, great Robert Wilson’s transcendent staging of Messiah—composed by George Frideric Handel—brought to life by the exquisite soprano Ying Fang —who sings like crystal —-and dancer Alexis Fousekis at Houston Grand Opera.
#RobertWilson #Messiah #Handel #YingFang #AlexisFousekis HoustonGrandOpera
