Object: Hat
Brand:
Public School NYC
(American, founded 2007)
Date: Fall 2017
Medium: Cotton and plastic
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of Public School
Object number: 2018.37.1
DescriptionMake America New York baseball cap in red cotton twill with white embroidery, the number 44 1/2 and NE at sides, chenille like technique at New York letters, plastic adjustable tab at center back
Label Text:“In 2017, designers Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow…tried to take back the red baseball cap…offering an alternative message: Make America New York…[T]he cap’s New York looked like a last minute act of subversion, as if someone had grabbed a MAGA hat, pulled apart its slogan with a sharp seam ripper and done a bit of hasty re-stitching. New York had the look of a do-it-yourself protest. A grass roots uprising against angry populism.” – Robin Givhan
In Collection(s)
Exhibitions:
- Power Mode