Every May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City holds a fund raiser called the Met Gala, hosted by fashion editor of Vogue, Anna Wintour. At this event, the Met’s Costume Institute creates an exhibition of groundbreaking fashion and invites the biggest name in fashion and art. Since 2010, this spectacle has become one of the most publicized events in the industry, but still, the organizers struggle with the perceived legitimacy of fashion design in the world of art. The Costume Institute, which cares for the largest collection of historic fashion in the world, literally resides in the basement of the Met.
The artistry of fashion is something I’ve always appreciated, so it was quite disappointing to discover how much fashion is looked …show more content…
Cultures have integrated so many times throughout history, and they will continue to evolve. This is a good thing. The problem with “cultural appropriation” as a concept is that there is only one race, the human one, with countless teeming cultures intermingling. Racism is the philosophy that there are separate human races. This is demonstrably untrue on the genetic level. So in my opinion, the cultural appropriation argument is simply a backdoor to the race card, and racism is nothing more than a social construct designed to keep us …show more content…
Words can separate us. Go to a foreign land or a culturally segregated part of town and you will immediately perceive how alien we are without the right words. But, take that same situation and give it the wordless expression of artistic communication, and you have a pass into that hidden world. People open up to you when you show them that yes, we are different, but we are also the same. Finding common ground can’t happen without exploration and experience of both cultures.
Our history is represented in art, from the Rosetta Stone to Kim Kardashian’s rear end on grainy film. What the future will see when they look back on us is irrelevant in the present moment to most of humanity, but museums and curators make it their business to show what has been, what could be, and offer another point of view to remove us from the banal everyday and into the realm of the
The artistry of fashion is something I’ve always appreciated, so it was quite disappointing to discover how much fashion is looked …show more content…
Cultures have integrated so many times throughout history, and they will continue to evolve. This is a good thing. The problem with “cultural appropriation” as a concept is that there is only one race, the human one, with countless teeming cultures intermingling. Racism is the philosophy that there are separate human races. This is demonstrably untrue on the genetic level. So in my opinion, the cultural appropriation argument is simply a backdoor to the race card, and racism is nothing more than a social construct designed to keep us …show more content…
Words can separate us. Go to a foreign land or a culturally segregated part of town and you will immediately perceive how alien we are without the right words. But, take that same situation and give it the wordless expression of artistic communication, and you have a pass into that hidden world. People open up to you when you show them that yes, we are different, but we are also the same. Finding common ground can’t happen without exploration and experience of both cultures.
Our history is represented in art, from the Rosetta Stone to Kim Kardashian’s rear end on grainy film. What the future will see when they look back on us is irrelevant in the present moment to most of humanity, but museums and curators make it their business to show what has been, what could be, and offer another point of view to remove us from the banal everyday and into the realm of the