{"id":446,"date":"2011-06-16T05:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T05:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:51:43","slug":"norman-felix-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AliaToor_99NamesOfAman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-645\" title=\"AliaToor_99NamesOfAman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/AliaToor_99NamesOfAman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alia Toor, 99 Names of Aman, 2004. Dust masks with cotton embroidered by the artist<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 18 \u00a0\u2013 November \u00a020, 2011<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA<\/strong><br \/>\n55 Centre Avenue<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M5G 2H5<br \/>\nT: 416.599.5321 x. 2239<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:alopes@textilemuseum.ca\">alopes@textilemuseum.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.textilemuseum.ca\">www.textilemuseum.ca<\/a><br \/>\nHours: daily 11-5, Wed 11-8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artists: Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Curated by Patricia Bentley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four contemporary artists explore the relationship of patterns, communication and spirit in conversation with textiles and symbols from the Museum\u2019s permanent collection of Islamic African artifacts. Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles in Muslim Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 18, 2011 \u2013 Nov 20, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artists: Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles<br \/>\nCurated by Patricia Bentley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textile Museum of Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=446\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","tag-textile-museum-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5637,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/5637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}