{"id":51787,"date":"2009-05-12T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=51787"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:26:41","slug":"virgil-abloh-figures-of-speech-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=51787","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech&#8221; Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/virgil-560x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/virgil-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/virgil-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/virgil.jpg 1372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first posthumous retrospective of designer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/virgilabloh\/?hl=en\">Virgil Abloh&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> work will take over the Brooklyn Museum this summer. <strong>Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech<\/strong>, will showcase two decades of work by the American fashion designer, who passed at the age of 41 in November of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;This is the first museum survey exhibition devoted to the late artist and designer Virgil Abloh, whose work reshaped notions of contemporary fashion, art, commerce, design and youth culture,&#8221; reads an official press release announcing the news. &#8220;The exhibition showcases a mix of fashion, large-scale sculpture, immersive spaces, videos and sketches spanning nearly two decades of Abloh&#8217;s career.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The show will actually build upon an eponymous earlier version that was set up in Chicago in 2019 and then traveled to Boston, Atlanta, and Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abloh was a defining figure of the art and fashion world, also a trained architect, and his untimely death following a private battle with cancer shook devotees around the world. Known for being the very first Black creative director at <strong>Louis Vuitton<\/strong>, Abloh also made a mark in creative circles by founding Milan-based fashion house <strong>Off-White<\/strong> in 2013, still an incredibly popular brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, July 1, 2022-January 29, 2023, More Info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/virgil_abloh\">HERE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first posthumous retrospective of designer Virgil Abloh&#8217;s work will take over the Brooklyn Museum this summer. Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, will showcase two decades of work by the American fashion designer, who passed at the age of 41 in November of last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first museum survey exhibition devoted to the late [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[9166,37,9167,3407,9165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51789,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51787\/revisions\/51789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}