Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora

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Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora

A two-day research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum

 

Thursday October 19 from 1:30-5:15pm at Bard Graduate Center and Friday October 20 from 11:15am-3:30pm at Brooklyn Museum

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

public.humanities@bgc.bard.edu

$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a college or university, people with museum ID, people with disabilities and caregivers, and BGC members

 

Bard Graduate Center Stages Historic “Exhibiting Africa” Symposium with Brooklyn Museum.

 

This two-day symposium explores present-day perspectives on the display of the arts and material culture of Africa and the Diaspora, examines its historiography in Western cultural institutions, and considers directions for its future.

 

The event coincides with exhibitions at each of its host institutions that contribute new approaches to display practices in the field. Convened by Drew Thompson and Annissa Malvoisin, curators, scholars, and faculty members at Bard Graduate Center, the event features discussions among thought leaders whose expertise ranges from the ancient to the contemporary, including Andrea Myers Achi (Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Solange Ashby (UCLA), Antawan I.Byrd (Northwestern), Sandrine Colard (Rutgers-Newark, Kanal-Pompidou Museum), Kevin D. Dumouchelle (National Museum of African Art), Geoff Emberling (Michigan), N’Goné Fall (curator and cultural policies specialist), Silvia Forni (Fowler Museum, UCLA), Alisa LaGamma (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Mpho Matsipa (Columbia GSAPP), Nontsikelelo Mutiti (Yale School of Art), and Tobias Wofford (VCU).

Date & Time

Oct 19 - 20, 2023

Venue Details

Bard Graduate Center AND Brooklyn Museum

38 West 86th Street
New York, New York 10024

Bard Graduate Center