Andrew Bolton (curator)
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| Born | 1966 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Curator in Chief of the Costume Institute |
| Known for |
Savage Beauty China: Through the Looking Glass |
Andrew Bolton (born 1966) is a British museum curator and current Head Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. Born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Bolton graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Non-Western Art.
Bolton came to the Met from London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002. In 2002, he joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as an Associate Curator of the Costume Institute. On September 8 2015, it was announced that he would replace the retiring Harold Koda as Curator in Chief of the Costume Institute. In 2015, he was awarded the Vilcek Prize in Fashion. Bolton has created and or co-created several critically lauded exhibitions including Savage Beauty featuring clothing created by British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, as well as China: Through the Looking Glass (both with Koda). Bolton exhibitions are known for their, "scholarly rigor....whimsy.... (and) theatricality."
Starting in May 2017, Rei Kawakubo will be the subject of one Bolton's exhibition for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fashion in New York.Vogue magazine and the Metropolitan Museum in New York have announced that the exhibition dedicated to Kawakubo is scheduled for its 2017 season between 4 May 2017 and 4 September 2017. In an interview with Vogue in April 2017, Bolton stated: “I really think her influence is so huge, but sometimes it’s subtle. It’s not about copying her; it’s the purity of her vision... Rei was really involved in the design of the exhibit”. Bolton also stated that the exhibit in May 2017 will be an austere, all-white maze hosting approximately 150 Comme ensembles. Both the exhibit and accompanying book by Bolton are based upon the recurrent fashion dichotomies concentrating on eight thematic oppositions listed as: (1) fashion/antifashion; (2) design/not design; (3) model/multiple; (4) then/now; (5) high/low; (6) self/other; (7) object/subject; and (8) clothes/not clothes.
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