Key	Imgs	Short Description
2023_DC_SIAfri_Ideal	29	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Before Nollywood … The Ideal Photo Studio Before Nollywood … The Ideal Photo Studio Before Nollywood . . . The Ideal Photo Studio is a living exhibition and an ongoing research and photography project that explores the lives of patrons from the Ideal Photo Studio and a history of Benin City and its community through the photographs of Solomon...
2021_DC_SIAfri_Caravans	143	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa July 16, 2021 – February 27, 2022 Gold from West Africa was the engine that drove the movement of things, people, and ideas across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East in an interconnected medieval world. As...
2023_DC_SIAfri_Create	197	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America November 18, 2023 – Fall 2024 The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art partnered with President Lincoln’s Cottage in 2022 to commission an installation by Beninois artist Georges Adéagbo. Created with the...
2017_DC_SIAfri_Currents	46	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Currents: Water in African Art Currents: Water in African Art July 2016 – Indefintely Diverse and wide-ranging in material, time period, style, and intended use, the objects in Currents span the continent of Africa to explore the importance of water for both practical and artistic purposes. Objects on view include Akan fish-shaped...
2023_DC_SIAfri_Currents	26	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Currents: Water in African Art (Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris) Currents: Water in African Art July 2016 – Indefintely Diverse and wide-ranging in material, time period, style, and intended use, the objects in Currents span the continent of Africa to explore the importance of water for both practical and artistic purposes. Objects on view include Akan fish-shaped...
2023_DC_SIAfri_The_Deep	43	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson April 29, 2023 – January 29, 2024 For her first monographic exhibition, acclaimed photographer Ayana V. Jackson was inspired by the Detroit-based 1990s techno band Drexciya (musicians James Stinson and Gerald Donald) whose albums imagined a...
2019_DC_SIAfri_Gold	86	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women October 24, 2018 – September 29, 2019 In the cities of the West African nation of Senegal, stylish women have often used jewelry as part of an overall strategy of exhibiting their elegance and prestige. Rooted in the Wolof concept of sanse (dressing up,...
2019_DC_SIAfri_Healing	17	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Healing Arts Healing Arts October 3, 2016 – Indefinitely Greeting visitors in the museum’s entry pavilion, select pieces from the museum’s permanent collection reveal the skill and range of African artists who create art empowered to counter physical, social, and spiritual problems. Works of diverse materials and...
2019_DC_SIAfri_Heroes	167	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Heroes: Principles of African Greatness Heroes: Principles of African Greatness November 16, 2019 – TBA Through art, artists tell stories—stories of the world's current complexity, but also visions of a world that could yet be. Heroes features a selection of masterworks from the the museum's permanent collection in a new, dynamic...
2019_DC_SIAfri_I_Am	73	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa June 20, 2019 – March 15, 2020 Taking its name from a 1970’s feminist anthem, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa draws upon a selection of artworks by women artists from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection to reveal...
2023_DC_SIAfri_I_Am	24	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa (Last Supper Revisited) I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa June 20, 2019 – March 15, 2020 Taking its name from a 1970’s feminist anthem, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa draws upon a selection of artworks by women artists from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection to reveal...
2022_DC_SIAfri_Nollywood	40	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits February 5, 2022 – February 28, 2023 Multimedia artist Iké Udé celebrates the luminescent beauty and mystique of African visionaries by turning his lens on the talented people who drive Nollywood, Nigeria’s $3 billion film industry. Known for his performative and...
2023_DC_SIAfri_5Murmur	30	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations October 14, 2023 – TBA Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah addresses the global COVID-19 pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter in this visual essay of our times. Drawing upon an extensive...
2019_DC_SIAfri_Iron	80	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths April 17, 2019 – October 20, 2019 For more than two millennia, ironworking has shaped African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths reveals the history of invention and technical sophistication that led...
2017_DC_SIAfri_Visionary	91	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts November 4, 2017 – Permanent This exhibition comprises the largest long-term presentation of the National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection to date. This installation represents the broadest possible range of Africa’s creative visual expressions....
2008_DC_SIAfri_Tishman	58	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights
2009_DC_SIAfri_Tishman	103	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights
2011_DC_SIAfri_Tishman	93	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights
2012_DC_SIAfri_Tishman	18	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Exhibit: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection Highlights
2005_DC_SIAfri	8	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2008_DC_SIAfri	2	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2009_DC_SIAfri	2	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2011_DC_SIAfri	2	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2017_DC_SIAfri	1	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2019_DC_SIAfri	29	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere I hadn't realized they had totally changed the lobby of the museum since I was last there. The information desk was now on the other side of the room, and interactive kiosks and display cabinets had been installed.
2021_DC_SIAfri	8	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2022_DC_SIAfri	3	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2023_DC_SIAfri	12	DC -- Natl Museum of African Art -- Not Covered Elsewhere
2017_DC_Price	120	Natl Museum of African Art -- Event: "The Price" w/Anthony Onah and Amil Ameen Seyi, a bright young Nigerian-American working on Wall Street, must navigate complicated family expectations, a turbulent romantic relationship, and a system of cultural complexities caused by class and race. With a dying father, a burgeoning romance with a white girlfriend, and dangerous new...

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