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DESCRIPTION:The earliest museums were not organized around “art” as we unde
 rstand it today\; they were cabinets of curiosities—assemblages of shells\
 , minerals\, and botanical specimens valued for their beauty\, rarity\, ta
 xonomic value\, and capacity to render the world legible through material 
 form. Matthew Yokobosky\, a 2026 Iris Foundation Award recipient\, draws f
 rom his own exhibition practice to examine how contemporary designers—such
  as Iris van Herpen—reconfigure the gallery as a twenty-first-century cabi
 net of wonders\, which is activated by curatorial structure as well as the
  embodied presence of viewers whose looking completes and continually rean
 imates the work.29th Annual Iris Foundation AwardsIn 1997 Susan Weber crea
 ted the Iris Foundation Awards to recognize scholars\, patrons\, and profe
 ssionals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of decorativ
 e arts\, design history\, and material culture. Matthew Yokobosky will rec
 eive the Iris Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar on April 27. Procee
 ds benefit the Bard Graduate Center Scholarship Fund. To find out more abo
 ut the Iris Foundation Awards\, visit us online or call 212.501.3071.Matth
 ew Yokobosky is senior curator of fashion and material culture at the Broo
 klyn Museum\, where he has shaped landmark exhibitions that merge fashion\
 , design\, and contemporary culture. Across two decades\, he has led the c
 uratorial and exhibition development of more than one hundred projects\, i
 ncluding Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History\, 1955 to the Presen
 t (2009–10)\, Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017)\, David Bowie Is (201
 8)\, Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion (2019–20)\, Studio 54: Night Magic (202
 0)\, and Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (2021–22). His curatorial prac
 tice emphasizes the immersive potential of exhibition design\, bringing fi
 ne art\, decorative arts\, and couture into new dialogues with visual cult
 ure. Yokobosky curated Solid Gold (2024–25)\, marking the Brooklyn Museum’
 s 200th anniversary and advancing conversations around craft\, material in
 novation\, and the applied arts. He is the organizing curator of Iris van 
 Herpen: Sculpting the Senses (2026)\, which considers couture as a site wh
 ere science\, technology\, and traditional handicraft converge. Previously
 \, he developed major exhibitions for the Whitney Museum of American Art\,
  spanning moving-image installation\, live art\, and the history of Americ
 an cinema. In 2023 he was named a Chevalier in the National Order of Merit
  by the president of France.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Staged Fashion
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