Next Year’s Met Gala Theme Revealed

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City has announced the theme of the 2020 Met Gala and the accompanying Costume Institute exhibition: “About Time: Fashion and Duration.”The exhibition — which will be part of the Met’s 150th anniversary celebrations — will trace the history of fashion from 1870 to the present, along what the museum calls a “disruptive timeline.”Borrowing from philosopher Henri Bergson a concept called “la durée” — time that flows, accumulates, and is indivisible — the show will explore the connection between fashion and time through the lens of the writings of the late Virginia Woolf, which will act as a “ghost narrator.” The catalogue will include a new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, “The Hours,” which was inspired by Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.” Read more at CNN.