Happenings

TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity presents more than 70 textiles from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mainly originating from western and southern Africa. The exhibition’s combination of older and newer textiles acknowledges cultural tradition as well as cultural change, and some of the modern textiles depict such contemporary objects as cell phones, firearms, and political leaders. Highlights of the show include a Pende masquerade costume from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Benin-style woman’s ensemble, a quilted man’s tunic and chain mail from Sudan, and an ostrich feather wig from Kenya.