{"id":6292,"date":"2017-03-15T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:11:47","slug":"yinka-shonibare-at-james-cohan-gallery-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/yinka-shonibare-at-james-cohan-gallery-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Yinka Shonibare, The British Library at James Cohan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare celebrates ethnic diversity in British literature with \u2018The British Library,\u2019 an installation of books written by British authors from around the globe. Wrapped in Shonibare\u2019s signature fabric \u2013 Dutch prints derived from Indonesian batik and sold to West African markets \u2013 the volumes bear silent testimony to the beauty of difference. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2017-02-02_yinka-shonibare-mbe\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea location through March 18<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/yinka-shonibare-at-james-cohan-gallery-3\/yinka_shonibare\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6293\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/yinka_shonibare-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yinka Shonibare, The British Library, hardback books, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, gold foiled names, headphones, interactive Application, dimensions variable, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare celebrates ethnic diversity in British literature with \u2018The British Library,\u2019 an installation of books written by British authors from around the globe. Wrapped in Shonibare\u2019s signature fabric \u2013 Dutch prints derived from Indonesian batik and sold to West African markets \u2013 the volumes bear silent testimony to the beauty of difference. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/yinka-shonibare-at-james-cohan-gallery-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yinka Shonibare, The British Library at James Cohan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,2591,2051,117,1341,13,38,6943,2320,16,564],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-books","tag-british","tag-chelsea","tag-fabric","tag-gallery","tag-installation","tag-james-cohan","tag-library","tag-tour","tag-yinka-shonibare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Du","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}