Exhibition | Duro Olowu Selects

Duro Olowu turns his eye to New York in the twentieth installment in Cooper Hewitt’s Selects series Duro Olowu Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, on view at Cooper Hewitt now through Sunday, August 28 2022.

Olowu’s exhibition highlights the theme of pattern and repetition throughout Cooper Hewitt’s collection, demonstrating how skilled and novice makers have relied on pattern to express ideas, preserve heritage, capture attention, and construct objects and environments.

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Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Book cover with illustration of a dark haired figure holding a green watering can on top of a giant daisy with differently patterned petals

A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa