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African Art II
1.
The Art Institute of Chicago''s
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria
exhibition
2.
The National Museum of African Art''s
Artists Dialogue: Antonio Ole and Aime Mpane
exhibition
3.
The Fowler Museum's
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of The Benue River Valley
exhibition videos (click on >)
4.
The Boston Museum of Fine Art''s African Collection
The Indianapolis Museum of Art''s African Art Collection
The Los Angeles County Museum''s African Art Collection
5.
The de Young Museum's
Embodiments: Masterworks of Figurative Sculptur
e exhibition
6.
The National Museum of African Art''s
Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems In African Art
exhibition
7.
The National Museum of African Art''s Radio Africa Feature (Click on Listen Now in the lower right corner)
DOUBLE CHECK!
African Art and Love
4.
Jelli Atiku's
Agbo Rago (Ram Market)
, 2012
6.-7.
Wura-Natasha Ogunji's
The epic crossing of an Ife head
, 2009
9.
Temitayo Ogunbiyi's website
12.
Zanele Muholi's
Being,
2007
13.
Andrew Esiebo's website
15.
Zina Saro-Wiwa's
Eaten By the Heart,
2012
Eaten By the Heart II
, 2012
African Art 2017
1.
The British Museum's
African Rock Art Image Project
2.
The British Museum's
Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone
video
3.
The Newark Museum's
Royals & Regalia: Inside The Palaces Of Nigeria's Monarchs
exhibition
H
assan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars
exhibition
4.
Hassan Hajjaj at The Taymour Grahne Gallery (click on >)
5.
The Met's
Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art
exhibition
6.-12.
The National Museum of African Art's
Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria
exhibition
13.-14.
The Met's
The Artist Project
Two South African Artists Fall 2018
5.-6.
Click here to learn about Kentridge's
Soho and Felix
Max Beckmann's Self-Portraits:
1911
1917
1920
10.
Kentridge's "
The Magic Flute" :
art21 "Extended Play"
Hockney's
The Magic Flute, 1978
12.
Introduction to MoMa's
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
exhibition
13.
The Teacher (sub a),
1987
14.
Marlene Dumas at MoMA
Marlene Dumas at The Tate
16.
Francis Bacon's paintings
Click here to see a selection of Marlene Dumas' Paintings
17.
Hans Holbein's
Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
, 1521-2
Marlene Dumas’
Likenesses I and II
, 2002
Nigeria Project
Art:
1.
Siddhartha Mitter's
NYT
article "Lagos City of Hustle, Builds an Art 'Ecosystem'
'
Music and Fashion:
Namsa Leuba's
New Yorker
magazine article "Beats Generation"
Literature:
Alexandra Alter's
NYT
article "A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres"
Cassava Republic Press
Larissa MacFarquhar's
New Yorker
magazine article "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms with Global Fame"
Fashion:
Alexis Okeowo's
New Yorker
magazine article "West Africa's Most Daring Designer"
Traditional Art:
The Brooklyn Museum of Art's
One: Egungun
exhibition
Playwrights:
Michael Paulson's
NYT article "Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds
Mfoniso Udofia
Ngozi Anyanwu
Ghana:
Jocelyn Bioh
Science Fiction:
Alexandra Alter's
NYT
article "Nnedi Okorafer and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine"
Tomi Adeyemi's
Children of Blood and Bone
(2018)
New Gallery:
Robin Progrebin's
NYT
article "From Lagos to Los Angeles, an African Art Gallery Arrives"
Reliquaries
1.
Alisa LaGamma’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
82
nd
& Fifth
online feature regarding The Fang Peoples’
Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female
, 19
th
-early 20
th
Century
2.
Treasures of Heaven
exhibition videos
3.
The Art Guys'
Forever Yours
, 2007-9
African Art 2019
1.
Chicago Art Institute's
A New View of African Art
online feature
2.-10.
National Museum of African Art's
Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women
exhibition
11.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art's
One: Egungun
exhibition
12.
UCLA Fowler Museum's
Inheritance: Recent Video Art from Africa
exhibition
13.
UCLA Fowler Museum's
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmithing
exhibition videos
14.
Vitra Design Museum's
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design
exhibition
Seydou Keita's official website
15. .
Africa by Design website
16.
MoMa's
Bodys Isek Kingelez's City Dreams
exhbiiton
17.
Sotheby's Collection Marceau Riviere
Ethiopian Churches 2020
1.
The New York Times'
The Church Forests of Ethiopia
video
African Food and Art Spring 2021
1.-5.
Vonnie Williams'
Gastro Obscura
article "Now Online: A Free Library Devoted to West Africa's Food Heritage"
6.
African American Cookbooks on Feast Afrique
Dallas Museum of Art:
7.-8.
Not Visible to the Naked Eye: Inside a Senufo Helmet Mask
exhibition
9.
Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa
At The Table:
10.
TPT's At The Table Series: Why is Culturally Relevant Food Important?
Invented in Nebraska:
The Runza
Dorothy Lynch Salad Dressing
Photography:
11.
Mia's
Todd Webb in Africa: Outside the Frame
African Diaspora Artists:
12.
The Tate Channel: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain: Fly in League with the Night
The Legion of Honor's
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?"
exhibition
The Tate Channel: Artist Claudette Johnson- 'Giving Space to the Presence of a Black Woman'
Denver Art Museum's
Simphiwe Ndzube: Oracles of the Pink Universe
exhibition
Senegalese Couscous:
13.
Hunger: Sub-Saharan Couscouses
Jamaican, Ghanian, and Nigerian Diaspora Women 2017
1.-3.
Zadie Smith’s
New Yorker
magazine article entitled “A Bird Of Few Words”
4.
UK Art's collection of Duncan Grant's paintings
5.
UK Art's collection of Walter Sickert's paintings
6.-7.
Zadie Smith’s
New Yorker
magazine article entitled “A Bird Of Few Words”
9.-13.
Taiye Selasi’s
New York Times
T Magazine
article entitled “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young African Immigrant”
14.
Jack Shainman Gallery's video of Toyin Ojih Odutola explaining her work
15.
Toyin Ojih Odutola's exhibitions at the Jack Shainman Gallery
16.
Toyin Ojih Odutola's Art Assignment: Intimate, Indispensable GIF
African Art 2020
Art by Metamorphosis:
1.-2.
The Met's
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
exhibition
3.
The Met's Excerpts from "Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today" video
Art by Destination:
3. The Tate Channel:
Billie Zangewa
6.
AIC's
Maglangatana: Mozambique Modern
exhibition
Media:
7.
Aida Muluneh's official website
8.
art21 New York Closeup: Meriem Bennani's In Between Languages
Painting:
9.
MoMa's Projects 110: Michael Armitage exhibition
The White Cube's
Michael Armitage
exhibition
Meek Gichugu
Chelenge
Jak Katarikawe
Fashion:
10.
Duro Olowu's official website
BBC The Way I See It: Duro Olowu on William H. Johnson's 'Children'
G.A.S. Foundation:
11.
Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA)
Teju Cole and Lupin Homework Spring 2021
1.
Lupin Teaser trailer
Western Museums with Nigerian Art:
The Met: Alexander Ives Bortolot's "Women Leaders in African History: Idia, First Queen Mother of Benin" essay
The Royal Collection
The British Museum
The Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin
2.-3.
Teju Cole and Photography:
Louisiana Channel: Teju Cole: My Looking Became Sacred
Wura-Natasha Orunji:
Louisiana Channel: Wura-Natasha Ogunji The Kissing Mask
Louisiana Channel: Wura-Natasha Oguni Beauty in the Streets of Lagos