Worn poetry Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum

Featuring 111 individual artworks gathered around eight themes

The 2020 edition of the Foam Magazine Talent Issue contains a selection of 20 artists from a fascinating pool of submissions

Pasolini scholar and professor at SUNY Stony Brook

Worn poetry Metropolitan MuseumIn this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five storiesLinen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Woolabout the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern day Chinese occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits,