Artistry, accessibility and, of course, money are integral to both art and fashion and the Metropolitan Museum of Art entwined all three in a series of announcements Monday. In doing so the museum encapsulated its future and heritage in equal parts, with a little brand building thrown in for good measure.

This spring’s Costume Institute exhibition will be “Costume Art,” which winks at its founding as the Museum of Costume Art in 1937. That independent entity merged with the Met nine years later with financial support from the fashion industry. The upcoming show will magnify the dressed body — and that means all types of bodies, not just model-worthy ones — by juxtaposing objects from the museum’s collection with a sampling of historical and contemporary garments from the Costume Institute

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