The Global Africa Project
Review of the exhibition 'The Global Africa Project' held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City (17 Nov. 2010-15 May 2011). Exhibition uniting over 100 works by international artists and designers, as well as by teams and collectives, who have diverse connections to Africa, co-cu...
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| Published in | Design and culture Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 102 - 105 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Routledge
01.03.2012
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| Summary: | Review of the exhibition 'The Global Africa Project' held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City (17 Nov. 2010-15 May 2011). Exhibition uniting over 100 works by international artists and designers, as well as by teams and collectives, who have diverse connections to Africa, co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond. Features textiles, jewellery, basketry, sculpture, furniture, painting, architecture, photography and installation art. Review notes that the display presents a new and visually engaging conception of African art, with a vibrant selection of objects that fuses the contemporary with the traditional, dissolves boundaries between art and craft, merges an interest in function with appreciation of aesthetics, and resists simple categorisation. Review mentions that the curators challenge how we define and categorise the artists and the art, as to who and what is African. Review also highlights the careful, conscious thematic organisation that demands the rethinking of former conceptual boundaries. (Quotes from original text) |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1754-7075 1754-7083 |
| DOI: | 10.2752/175470812X13176523285471 |