Clothing, installations, furniture, music and videos by the US designer Virgil Abloh, who died in November, have been on display at the Brooklyn Museum in New York since Friday. The show Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, originally developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Abloh’s hometown of Chicago, is the first museum exhibition dedicated to the designer’s work, the Brooklyn Museum said.
The planning for the exhibition, which will be on view until January 29, 2023, has been going on for around three years, and Abloh himself was still working on it before his death. The aim is to “celebrate his explosive talent,” said museum director Anne Pasternak.
Abloh died of cancer in November at the age of 41. Most recently, he worked as a designer and creative director of the men’s line at Louis Vuitton.
The Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1887, is the second largest exhibition center in the metropolis of New York. It houses scientific and ethnological collections as well as design and art from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.