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FASHION AS ART
BY ARBEL A CAPAS
if you know where to look. You can discover it in various crevices — from inside a designer boutique in Chagrin Falls to amongst the racks of a vintage store in Lakewood. One place it’s about to start emerging even more is at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Darnell-Jamal Lisby, the museum’s new assistant curator, is going to be leading the charge. His role, above all, is to show how fashion can be appreciated and dissected as art. “I think that most people kind of separate the two as individual mediums,” says Lisby. “But I think that a lot of aspects of fashion are considered artistic and art.” The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, which opens on May 8 and runs through Sept. 11, is just the first of many fashion exhibitions to open a whole new world of art. FASHION ABOUNDS IN CLE VEL AND,
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