All That Glitters Isn't Gold: Dressing Up "Dress Up" // TRAIN BRAIN

All That Glitters Isn't Gold: Dressing Up "Dress Up"

How do textile conservators and curators prepare costumes for exhibitions? What role does science play in preparing jewelry for presentation? How are mannequins are chosen for display, and what goes on under dresses to make them sparkle? Find out the answers to all these questions and more as you hear from conservators who worked with scientists and curators alike to bring “Dress Up” to life.
Mei-An Tsu, Objects Conservator
Joel Stephenson, Textile and Fashion Arts Conservator
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Getting Ready for "Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore" with MFA Conservation

Essence of Nō Theater

Jewelry and Fashion at Play

A Queer Eye on Dressing Up

All That Glitters Isn't Gold: Dressing Up "Dress Up"

Korean Americans Connect to “Hallyu!”

New Discourses on Folk and Self-Taught Art

MFA Member Lectures: Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection

Spotlight on Asian American Art: Toshiko Takaezu

Hallyu and Korean Fashion

Korean Popular Arts and Culture: K-Pop and Beyond

The MFA’s Korean Art Collection and Hallyu!

Ashes to Powerhouse: South Korea from the 1950s to the 2020s

Craft Supernova: BU's Program in Artisanry, 1975-85

Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait

MFA Member Lectures: Dress Up

Exploring Jewish History and Art: Old Faith in the New World

Exploring Jewish History and Art: Boston's First Judaica Gallery

Art As Evidence: Jewish Manuscripts and the Archeology of Jewish Life

Jewish Feminism: Transforming Ritual Practice 3/13/24

Art Meets Innovation: Spot and Riley Visit "Hallyu! The Korean Wave"

As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston

Connecting to Tradition: Crafting Hanbok in America

Korean Moon Jars: More than Meets the Eye

"The Coat is The Picture": John Singer Sargent, Painting, and Fashion

Hallyu! The Korean Wave

MFA Member Lectures: Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction

MFA Member Lectures: Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence

MFA Member Lectures: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

MFA Member Lectures: Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas

MFA Member Lectures: Translating American Stories

MFA Member Lectures: Up Close with a Jewelry Curator

MFA Member Lectures: Tiny Treasures: The Magic of Miniatures

MFA Member Lectures: Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances

MFA Member Lectures: Fashioned by Sargent

MFA Member Lectures: Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints

London Art Scene in the Age of John Singer Sargent

Madame X: Fashion and Self-fashioning in John Singer Sargent's Paris

Fashioned by Sargent: Inspired Beauty through Dress

“It” Women and John Singer Sargent’s Self-Fashioning

"It" Women and John Singer Sargent's Self- Fashioning

"The Coat is The Picture": John Singer Sargent, Painting, and Fashion

Women in Renaissance Italy: Community and Culture in Florentine Convents

Passionately Unconventional: Music by Women in Renaissance Italy

Women in Renaissance Italy: The Art of Family Life

Italy’s First Woman of Letters: Vittoria Colonna

Women in Renaissance Italy: Generations of Strong Women

Catherine Opie

Hokusai and Contemporary Art: Pop Art, Superflat, and Beyond

Looking at Hokusai’s Ghosts

Harriet Powers: A Story of Art and Faith

Hokusai and His Students

Michaelina Wautier: The Woman Who Painted ‘The Five Senses’

Stories Artists Tell: Art and the Spirit

Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas

Stories Artists Tell: Introduction and Southwest Spotlight

Anne Carson: A Rustle of Catullus

From Getting the Picture to Life Magazine’s Impact

Reimagining Early Greek Art

Where Art and Life Sciences Meet

Turner, Forerunner

Center for Netherlandish Art: Dutch and Flemish Masterpieces in Boston

Portraits of Leadership

Globalization and Netherlandish Art

Figures in Red: Red-figure technique in ancient vase painting

Athena Reveals Her True Colors

Curating Guston

Vincent Valdez: In Conversation

Musa Mayer: In Conversation

Hidden Cost of Luxury

Why Make a Self Portrait

Wealth in Miniature

Portraying an African King

Celebrating Harriet Powers and Quilt Stories

Sky and Sea: Understanding Climate Resilience and Innovation through Dutch Art

Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes