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![Artist Unknown, Moyō hinagata miyako no nishiki / [henshū Yamanaka Kichirobē] : [volume 1], 1886, illustrated book, 10 1/4 inches (26 cm). Watson Library copy. William Alexander Smith Fund. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries](//img.artrabbit.com/events/the-clamor-of-ornament-exchange-power-and-joy-from-the-fifteenth-century-to-the-present/images/tDOcKKFGJIdq/612x460/unknown-artist-the-Clamor-of-Ornament.jpg)
Artist Unknown, Moyō hinagata miyako no nishiki / [henshū Yamanaka Kichirobē] : [volume 1], 1886, illustrated book, 10 1/4 inches (26 cm). Watson Library copy. William Alexander Smith Fund. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
![Artist Unknown, Moyō hinagata miyako no nishiki / [henshū Yamanaka Kichirobē] : [volume 1], 1886, illustrated book, 10 1/4 inches (26 cm). Watson Library copy. William Alexander Smith Fund. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/the-clamor-of-ornament-exchange-power-and-joy-from-the-fifteenth-century-to-the-present/images/UeuiNHhP1dKd/1500x1125/unknown-artist-the-Clamor-of-Ornament.jpg)
Exhibition
The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
15 Jun 2022 – 18 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 35 Wooster St
- New York
New York - 10013
- United States
Bringing together more than 200 objects produced over the past five centuries, The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present will explore ornament in architecture, art, and design through the lens of drawing.
About
The exhibition will foreground ornament’s potential as a mode of communication, a form of currency, and a means of exchange across geographies and cultures. The Clamor of Ornament will seek to address the multilayered complexity of the history of ornament, including the dissonance between the unequal and destructive relationships that mediate its movement between sources. Together, the objects on view will both celebrate and interrogate ornament’s fluidity by making connections between motifs, methods, and intentions.The exhibition will feature a broad range of drawings, prints, textiles and objects, including eighteenth-century Indian palampores; Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur drawings; kosode paper designs; Navajo textiles; and Albrecht Dürer’s Islamic-inspired woodblock-print knots. This broad approach to the subject of ornament will also encompass original architectural drawings by Louis Sullivan and Sir David Adjaye; contemporary ornament in the form of logos from luxury fashion brands; and even present-day designs for patisserie.
