Double Take: African Innovations opens today! Double Take is a new, temporary installation that buil

Double Take: African Innovations opens today! Double Take is a new, temporary installation that builds upon the previous exhibition, African Innovations―our first chronological presentation of the collection―by exploring surprising and unexpected connections between African artworks. The main gallery features fifteen pairs or small groups that explore themes, subjects, and techniques that recur throughout African history. The exhibition’s emblematic signature image, a montage of contemporary Benin artist Romuald Hazoumé’s Fiegnon juxtaposed with a historical Fragment of a Head by an unidentified Yoruba artist, highlights continuities and innovations in African portraiture.Once you’ve had the chance to explore new connections between artworks, an adjacent “storage annex” will offer 150 masterpieces from our extensive African holdings, to further your close looking deeper into the collection. You will also have the chance to offer suggestions for themes you may discover by visiting the exhibition. An empty case awaits your input, and we encourage you to pair selections of additional African artworks not on view, such as this magnificent Luba staff finial, and to share your photos online.Take your discoveries to social media under the hashtag #BKMAfricanArt. I will keep a lookout on Twitter for interesting paired suggestions. These responses will then inform the rotations in the empty case―and will help us to shape the next, larger presentation of our African collection in the years to come.Come and look―and then look again―in Double Take: African Innovations.Posted by Kevin Dumouchelle -- source link

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