The Metropolitan Museum Of Gawker

I don’t know which is worse — that the Met is incorporating blogging into its exhibits or that the Post actually used the word “fugly” in a headline:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is inviting the public to unleash its inner fashion critic, and blog about all 65 items found in a new exhibit.

The museum, which just kicked off its “blog.mode: addressing fashion” exhibit, will periodically post its objects on a special online site — and anyone can comment on them from the comfort of home or a computer station at the exhibit.

“While painting and sculpture can sometimes seem to be an intimidating conceptual remove, fashion is so familiar, so ubiquitous to our experience, that it is inherently and immediately accessible,” Harold Koda, curator in charge of the Costume Institute, said.

“Individuals who might shy away from commenting on the merits of a Juan Gris or Henry Moore will readily disclose their thoughts on a gown by John Galliano or a mule by Manolo Blahnik.”

That said, it actually may contribute a new thin slicing technique: intuitively avoiding pretentious exhibits that use periods and lower case in the title.