Happenings

This exhibition features more than forty African textiles dating from the early nineteenth century to the present day. With works drawn from the Metropolitan Museum's own collection and that of the British Museum, as well as a number of private collections, the show will demonstrate the ways in which today's artists take inspiration from traditional pieces. Highlights will include a kente prestige cloth woven in Ghana in the nineteenth century and a thirty-foot-long installation by contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare, one of eight living artists represented in the exhibition.