Name: The Cloth that Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
Start: 2020-9-12T10-10-00-00
End: 2021-9-6T17-17-30-00
Location: Royal Ontario Museum

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sat09mar10:00 amwed5:30 pmTOY SOLDIERS AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUMEXHIBITION10:00 am - 5:30 pm Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens ParkRegion:Greater Toronto & HamiltonCity:Toronto

sat12sep(sep 12)10:00 ammon06(sep 6)5:30 pmThe Cloth that Changed the World: India’s Painted and Printed Cottons AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUMEXHIBITION10:00 am - 5:30 pm (6) Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queens ParkRegion:Greater Toronto & HamiltonCity:Toronto

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Made with novel cotton, vivid colours and exuberant design, the painted and printed cottons of India changed human history; they revolutionized art, fashion and science wherever they went around the globe. Featuring pieces from the Museum’s world-renowned collection, this ROM original exhibition explores how over thousands of years India’s artisans have created, perfected and innovated these printed and painted multicoloured cotton fabrics to fashion the body, honour divinities, and beautify palaces and homes.

Presenting the fascinating stories behind the people who made, commissioned, shipped, sold and ultimately used these pieces, TheCloth that Changed the World considers India’s textile innovations and their influences on art, trade and industry around the world in places as far as Cairo, Japan, Sumatra, London, and Montreal. They were the luxury fabric of their day, coveted by all, and one of the great inventions that drew foreigners to India’s shores hungry for more. Discover how through trade-routes, encounters, and exchange, these cloths connected cultures and, quite literally, changed the world.

Photo Detail from Indian ‘chintz’ hanging (palampore). 18th century. ROM 934.4.13. Gift of Mrs. Harry Wearne.

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12 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 6 (Monday) 5:30 pm

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Royal Ontario Museum

100 Queens Park

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Royal Ontario Museuminfo@rom.on.ca 100 Queens Park

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sat21novAll Daysun06junEarly Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichaelEXHIBITION(All Day) McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ONRegion:Greater Toronto & HamiltonCity:Woodbridge

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From its beginnings, the McMichael has had a long and proud history of collecting Indigenous art, now with more than 1,500 works ranging from eighteenth-century ceremonial regalia, through to items made for trade with settlers, to works by the vanguard of artists coming of age in the ’60s, 70s and 80s — among them Robert Houle, Carl Beam, Norval Morrisseau, Alex Janvier, Greg Staats, Faye HeavyShield and Shelly Niro — and onward to leading contemporary artists like Kent Monkman, Meryl McMaster and Rebecca Belmore. The McMichael also holds the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op’s landmark collection of original drawings from Cape Dorset (Kinngait) dating back to the 1950s, to be displayed alongside our deep holdings in Inuit drawings, prints, textiles, and sculpture. Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael will gather the remarkable artworks together, and the stories that go with them, in an eight-month celebration of these powerful legacies. The show will also include recent acquisitions reflecting the diversity and vitality of Indigenous art in Canada today.

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November 21 (Saturday) - June 6 (Sunday)

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McMichael Canadian Art Collection

10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ON

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McMichael Canadian Art Collection905.893.1121 10365 Islington Avenue, Kleinburg, ON