New York City exhibits showcase African modernism and avant-garde art
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Several New York City museums are hosting exhibitions this autumn that explore diverse artistic and cultural movements.
The Museum of Modern Art presents “Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa,” displaying around 400 objects from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon created between the 1960s and early 1980s. This exhibition marks the first major museum display of post-liberation architecture from the region, featuring drawings, models, and photographs illustrating cityscapes inspired by Pan-Africanism.
The New Museum opened “Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony,” a survey of the artist’s nearly 40 years of work, incorporating music and video to examine Black culture and American identity. MoMA PS1 features “Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene),” an exhibition informed by the artist’s background as a forensic pathologist and her focus on the impact of violence.
Margolles will display 22 tons of dust created from the disassembled remains of a house in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, alongside a new installation involving heated steel plates and water. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy” presents 180 objects from across the museum’s collection to trace over a century of Western European engagement with Islamic cultures.
The Grey Art Museum is showing “By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960-2022),” celebrating the work of the Fluxus co-founder, from her early silk-screening experiments to her performance art and sculptural instruments.
