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Unboxing the Origins of Civilization

Avatar photo by Anne Whiting October 23, 2022October 23, 2022

With cardboard paintings, Omar Ba honors African cultures and challenges the Eurocentric view of history.

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Photography From Africa that Refuses Easy Narratives

Avatar photo by Zoe Samudzi October 2, 2019October 25, 2019

Africa State of Mind does not pander to expectations audiences might have or desire of African artists, instead allowing for these artists from 11 different countries to devise their own frameworks for understanding the places they are from.

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A New Curatorial Vision Disrupts Inherited Ideas of Regional Identity in African Art

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 17, 2018

Laura De Becker’s first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.

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In Paris, a Museum of African Art Brings Out Its Jewels

by Joseph Nechvatal February 25, 2016February 29, 2016

PARIS — In his prescient book Black Sculpture (1915), Carl Einstein describes certain transcendent examples of African sculpture as a form of “fixed ecstasy.”

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British Museum’s First Commissioned Caribbean Sculptures Tower Over Its Great Court

by Sharon Obuobi September 8, 2015September 22, 2015

Wander into the British Museum’s Great Court these days, and you’ll encounter two large, black and gold Moko Jumbie sculptures guarding the staircases on either side.

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US Customs Officials Confiscate Sculpture Made of Weapons

by Claire Voon September 8, 2015

A legal battle is brewing over a sculpture by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda after customs officials, considering it a weapon, confiscated it from its owner.

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Artists of African Descent Don Disguises in the Digital Age

by Kenta Murakami September 3, 2015September 7, 2015

SEATTLE — The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) attempts to confront the nuanced subtext of its vast collection of African masks in the ambitious and delightful exhibition Disguise: Masks and Global African Art.

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African Artists Take a Seat at the Table

by Chase Quinn August 13, 2015August 13, 2015

Boundary lines make up much of the Richard Taittinger Gallery’s current exhibit, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? — lines that, like borders, criss and cross, divide and obscure.

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A Contemporary African Art Fair Arrives in New York

by Jillian Steinhauer May 14, 2015May 16, 2015

It may at first thought seem odd that the newest addition to Frieze Week in New York is a fair devoted to contemporary African art.

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Landmark African Art Exhibit Is Reassembled, but Mystery of Its Origin Remains

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 26, 2015September 14, 2015

When a dozen weather-worn wood sculptures from southeastern Nigeria debuted in a Paris gallery in 1974, they were radically different from any African art that had been exhibited in the West.

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Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian January 8, 2014January 11, 2014

Last year, Alexandra Thom spent ten illustrious months on Wikipedia. Thom, with a grant from the Kress Foundation, helped fill the gaps about art and culture on Wikipedia using the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the expertise of its curatorial department.

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A Performance Artist’s Tribute to Nelson Mandela

by Ellen Pearlman December 16, 2013

On December 11, performance artist and sculptor Angela Freiberger offered a succinct and touching “Homage to Mandela” at the Tambaran Gallery.

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