This online exhibition is a companion to the SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa exhibition and centers on the profound and generative relationship between historical African arts and material culture and the work of contemporary artists. Through seven themes (extraction, speculative architecture, currency, devotion, embodying power, domesticity, and protection), the site explores the diverse material worlds that these artworks inhabit, while highlighting their connections and the dynamic kinship they forge between the past and present.
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SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa is a new expanded presentation of Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa, a touring exhibition curated by Susan Cooksey, former curator of African Art at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art.
Support for SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa is generously provided by the Scully Peretsman Foundation and other generous donors to Bard Graduate Center.