On Campus - Thursday, November 6, 2008 18:25 - 0 Comments

Fabric and Politics in African Art at the NYU Grey Gallery

If someone asked you to describe African art what would you say? Masks? Not anymore, the new Grey Art Gallery exibit, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles and Recent Art is a phenomenal exhibit discussing African identity and the controversies surrounding its past through installation and cloth pieces. The provocative works comment on the history of Ghana’s textiles (especially the Andrinka symbols and Kente cloth), the legacy of colonialism and African current events both cultural and political. Continue…