ARTHIST 282| AFS 282 Arts of Africa & Museums

Gold from West Africa was the engine that drove the movement of things, people, and ideas across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East in an interconnected medieval world

Traces the legacy of Sahel—a vast region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger-and the visual arts the region produced.

The exhibition features over 225 works of blacksmith’s art from across the African continent.

This international loan exhibition explores the history and culture of Central Africa's Kongo through 146 of the most inspired creations of Kongo masters from the late fifteenth through the early twentieth century.

The exhibition introduces visitors to the poro and sandogo societies, the primary settings for the production and use of works of art in the Senufo-speaking region of northern Côte d’Ivoire.

Musée du Quai Branly has pursued an unprecedented acquisition policy in order to complete and enrich the collections inherited from the MNAAO and the Musée de l'Homme.

Organized in seven thematic areas: Strangers and Spirits, Traders, Settlers, Spirituality and Tehcnology, Education, Colonizers, and Westerners.

Showcases works of art that illuminate Africa’s contributions to the science and practice of astronomy.

African masks performed in full costume to serve many vital functions. Music, song and dance are essential to their effectiveness. The exhibit highlights High Museum of Art’s works of art from western and central Africa, including several masquerades in full costume.

Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, architect David Adjaye chose and commented on the AIC works rom South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. discussing their shapes, textures, materials, and histories.

This touring exhibition is fully organized and created by Africans, and featuring the continent’s finest contemporary artists.

Six internationally recognized African artists examine how time is experienced—and produced—by the body. Bodies stand, climb, dance, and dissolve in seven works of video and film art. These time-based works by Sammy Baloji, Theo Eshetu, Moataz Nasr, Berni Searle, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sue Williamson repeat, resist, and reverse the expectation that time must move relentlessly forward.

Forty of the best known and emerging artists from 18 African nations and the African diaspora explore themes addressed in Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem, The Divine Comedy

Dr. Fahamu Pecou explores the intersections between African-based spiritual traditions and the political and societal violence against Black male bodies in the US.

Explores the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the African continent. 15 artists from 11 different countries interrogate ideas of ‘Africanness’ through highly subjective renderings of life and identity, collectively revealing Africa as a psychological space or a ‘state of mind’, as much as a physical territory.

Features more than 30 works by El Anatsui in metal and wood that transform appropriated and found objects into site-specific sculptures.

This exhibition features video works by contemporary African artists who are contending with inherited political, social, and environmental realities in their respective countries. Artists Kudzanai Chiurai (b. 1981, Zimbabwe), Zina Saro-Wiwa (b. 1976, Nigeria), and Mikhael Subotzky (b. 1981, South Africa) grapple with the ramifications of colonial legacies.

Mokgosi’s Bread, Butter, and Power is a new large-scale painting cycle that explores the overarching theme of feminism and gendered divisions of labor throughout southern Africa.