History in the Making: A Camilla Huey Exhibition of Corsetry-Inspired Art at Harlem's Morris-Jumel Mansion

If the words “bodice ripper” spring to mind while perusing the work of Camilla Huey, whose sculptural installation, “The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry and Binding,” opens next week at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, a historic residence in Washington Heights, it’s not meant as a put-down.

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