Happenings

The Seattle Art Museum places a focus on stripes with Order and Border, a long-term exhibition which examines how stripes decorate and lend structure to objects bodies, and spaces. Textiles from Asia, Africa, and Indonesia are on prominent display, including a meditation cloth from Laos and a kingmaker's cloth from Nigeria. Also on view will be objects representing the use of stripes in three dimensions, including everyday vessels from ancient Nubia and Syria that contrast with brash splashes of color on a group of historic jars from China. The exhibition will also feature numerous photographs by a variety of artists, notably several by Lewis Hine taken in the early twentieth century.