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PAULA BAXTER sees a thread running through the history of men's fashion: dissolute or licentious elements of style acting as a goad of dress norms. "Men's clothing over the centuries has been impacted by what men on the street wear," says the curator of an exhibit of about 200 engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors?sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle...
Historical-museum curators can be a contentious bunch--get between two of them debating whether the Smithsonian exhibit of First Ladies' ball gowns is real history, and you may want to John Wilkes Booth one or both of them. But nearly all curators will agree that they are battling a common enemy: public indifference. If you're in the history business, you're competing for shrinking wallets and tighter leisure time. Schools teach less history, so kids have less of an idea about what happened at your venue or why it matters. And those same kids have perhaps more veto...
Most innovative is the first room of the exhibit, a CSI-inspired forensics lab complete with spare body parts left over from the manufacture of the Washington models, joined by a short film about how the models were made. Think of it as the ultimate museum label. Instead of a simple placard that reads something like WASHINGTON ATOP A STUFFED HORSE, the new Mount Vernon center will use its CSI room to grab visitors with a narrative backstory about the displays they...
...emblazoned on his back. The tattoo, which took nine months to complete, was therapeutic. "The pain in my back was good for the pain in my head," he says. Plus Cassidy, 34, married the tattoo parlor's receptionist. This image, by photographer Jonathan Hyman, is featured in the photo exhibit, "9/11: A Nation Remembers," at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, opening Sept...