Sponsored by David Lerner Associates and Sterling Glen Senior Living
Partial Support from Astoria Federal Savings
Educational Support from The Roslyn Savings Foundation

Fashions in clothing have often reflected the tenor of the times, from exuberant lavishness to straight-laced restraint. In Art and Fashion: From Marie Antoinette to Jacqueline Kennedy NCMA brings together work by leading artists such as Renoir, Lautrec, Cezanne, Cassatt, Wm. M. Chase, Picasso, Warhol and photographers such as Avedon and Horst, each of whom have either influenced or have been influenced by the fashions of their times. The exhibition includes new and vintage costumes in settings that encompass art, photography, the decorative arts and furniture. It also features images of personages through the centuries whose clothing choices set the fashion trends of their eras, among them Marie Antoinette, Empress Josephine, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy.

The role of the clothing designer, or couturier, had its roots in France's ancien régime and Napoleon's Empire. Continuing into the bustles and hoop skirts of Victorian times, the tradition of the couturier became preeminent during the international Belle Époque Gilded Age when the leading Paris haute couture firm, House of Worth, reigned supreme; fashionable women of the time absolutely had to be seen in gowns by Worth. Art and Fashion traces the intersections of history, society and visual expression. The exhibition also examines the ongoing dichotomy created by the quest for both invention and obsolescence, as artistic innovations saw prevailing counterparts in clothing fashions.

Art and Fashion sweeps from the glamorous gowns in the style of Marie Antoinette and the royal court of the Sun King to the refined elegance of the Oleg Cassini designs favored by Jacqueline Kennedy during her White House years and on to mass market clothing showing the high-keyed colors and dramatic patterns of 60's Pop Art.

Art and Fashion is an original exhibition curated by JoAnne Olian, the curator emeritus of the Museum of the City of New York, and NCMA's curator, Franklin Hill Perrell. It is sponsored by David Lerner Associates and Sterling Glen Senior Living.

In the Contemporary Gallery…
Victor Skrebneski: Fashion and Art
May 28 through August 13

We are pleased to present the work of Victor Skrebneski, a photographer who has been hailed as one of the finest fashion, figural and portrait photographers of all time. For more than half a century, Skrebneski has trained his camera and his unerring eye on the world's most beautiful, celebrated and accomplished individuals.

Skrebneski's diverse body of work, from wildly inventive fashion images to starkly revealing portraits and haunting cityscapes, has been influenced by his formal training in art at the Art Institute and the Institute of Design. Whether we find ourselves gazing at a Lagerfeld dress soaring through the skies of Paris, a minimalistic portrait or the art of haute couture, each photograph exhibits the lyricism, elegance, timelessness and classicism that have become hallmarks of the Skrebneski style