Fashion and art are close friends. Elsa Schiaparelli (Coco Chanel’s biggest rival) collaborated with Salvador Dalí to create a lobster dress in 1937, when the art world was inspired by surrealism. Takashi Murakami put his smiling flowers on Louis Vuitton handbags in 2003. Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty exhibit at the Met in 2011 was so breathtaking that I’m not sure anyone would dare to say his creations were not that of an artist.

Creativity must have a support system. At Larrimor’s we believe in art, in many different shapes and forms. Tomorrow, we are sponsoring Bodycast at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. Developed by New York–based visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra, Bodycast is part artist talk, part performance, part essay, part live video installation. Oh yeah, and it’s performed by Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. It tells the history of how artists are taught to make art, and how all of us are taught to look at it. And the Pittsburgh performance is the debut!

Now that I’ve piqued your interest, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that tomorrow’s performance is sold out. The good news is that we’re sponsoring another fantastic event on Wednesday, March 20th: What are museums for? The Guerrilla Girls. If you’ve never taken any Women’s Studies courses (shame on you!) then you may not know that the Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous feminists that have set out to expose discrimination in the art world. Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky will engage in a dynamic exchange of ideas with the Guerrilla Girls about the evolving role of women in the art world, and the Empowering Women exhibition will be open 5–9 p.m at the museum.

Come out this month and support art with us!