These artists are reimagining the face mask. Here’s how.

A virtual exhibition of more than 100 face masks from around the world brings whimsy and art to the grim pandemic icon

The Happy Hour mask, by Toronto designer Helene Clarkson, includes a concealed opening that fits a straw.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

“I was so happy to find that so banal and despised an object could bring joy and hope,” says Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset, chair of the ICOM costume committee and a research associate at Versailles, who conceived the idea of the multi-museum exhibit.

Rothwell’s acquisition for the museum, also in the ICOM show, is by an Irish visual artist who goes by the moniker threadstories. “I made the invisible visible,” the artist says of her

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