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Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora.
A research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
Day 1, Panel 2: Classical / Contemporary
Discussant: Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in charge of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sandrine Colard is assistant professor of art history at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States, and associate curator at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels .
Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the National Museum of African Art in October 2016. His most recent exhibition, Heroes: Principles of African Greatness was awarded a Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award.
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Hosted by Bard Graduate Center and the Brooklyn Museum, this timely symposium explored 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.
Exhibiting Africa: State of the Field in African Art and the Diaspora.
A research symposium presented in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.
Day 1, Panel 2: Classical / Contemporary
Discussant: Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in charge of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sandrine Colard is assistant professor of art history at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States, and associate curator at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels .
Kevin D. Dumouchelle joined the National Museum of African Art in October 2016. His most recent exhibition, Heroes: Principles of African Greatness was awarded a Smithsonian Excellence in Exhibitions Award.
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Hosted by Bard Graduate Center and the Brooklyn Museum, this timely symposium explored 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.
