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1. The display of the work of art: Exhibitions of African art at the Brooklyn Museum, 1923, and the...

Author

Koh, B. Blake

Subjects
ART exhibitions, AFRICAN art, ART museums
Abstract

Focuses on the exhibitions of African Art in two New York City museums, at the Brooklyn Museum in 1923 and at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935. Use of terms and arguments of art history in making a case of the aesthetic value of African objects; Change in the nature of museum display; Changing conception of museums in the United States; Evolution of the art museum.

Published
1996
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2. Picasso's Sculpture.

Author

Berenson, Ruth

Subjects
SCULPTURE, SCULPTORS, ART museums, AFRICAN art, MODERN arts
Abstract

Presents information on sculptures designed by Pablo Picasso, a sculptor, which are being displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. View that no twentieth-century artist has generated more public controversy than Picasso; Opinion that from the moment he began exhibiting, his paintings were revolutionary; Report that each stage of Picasso's career shocked the public and challenged the critics; Analysis of Picasso's artistry; Interest of Picasso in African primitive sculpture.

Published
1967

3. New Home for African Diaspora Museum.

Author

Miller, Leigh Anne

Subjects
ART museums, AFRICAN art
Abstract

The article announces that the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MOCADA) will reopen on May 18, 2006 in the James E. Davis 80 Art Building in Brooklyn, New York City. MOCADA founder and executive director Laurie Cumbo hired architecture firm Studio SUMO of New York. The museum's former home is on the fourth floor of a church-owned bownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

Published
2006

4. Nnenna Okore: 'Transfiguration'.

Author

COTTER, HOLLAND

Subjects
*WASTE recycling, *AFRICAN art, *ART museums, *HANDMADE paper, *EXHIBITIONS
Abstract

The article reviews the exhibition "Transfiguration," featuring the works of Nnenna Okore at the Contemporary African Art Gallery in New York City until November 10, 2012.

Published
2012