Art Review
Clothes make the man, or the woman. They broadcast information about position in society, about personality, and about what a culture values. Now two exhibitions of textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts reveal the mores, aesthetics, and even, to some extent, the economics of two different places and different times: The young Soviet Union and contemporary West Africa. (Full article: 890 words)
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