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NYTimes Article, "Pulling Museum Mile Uptown"
Mrs. Thompson is preparing to open the museum’s new $95 million home on upper Fifth Avenue next spring.
Ife Exhibition Press after London Opening
Dynasty and Divnity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria also known as Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa has been getting phenominal reviews after its opening at the British Museum in London.
NEH awards Museum its second $500,000 Construction Grant
The NEH just announced its second $500,000 grant to the Museum for "direct costs of fit-out of newly constructed Museum for African Art building."
NEA grants Museum $50,000 for Dogon Now: Masks in Motion
This grant was awarded to support the touring exhibition Dogon Now: Masks in Motion, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present and interpret the evolution of Dogon (Mali) mask dancers and sculpture that have, over the years, assimilated modernity into traditional forms.
Ife--One of Telegraph.co.uk's "Key art exhibitions of 2010"
Ife is "potentially the exhibition of the year" says Richard Dormant of Telegraph.co.uk. The Museum's Ife exhibition opens at the British Museum in March.
Video of The Pervasive Echo by Ruth Sacks, Presented by the Museum for African Art
A re-examination of the 19th-century pehnomenon that was Jenny Lind, a singer also known as the "the Swedish Nightingale," in which a fragment of Lind's inaugural concert in America was restaged under unusual circumstances at the same site where she gave this historic concert 159 years ago. Presented by the Museum for African Art.
New York Times Profile of Museum President Elsie McCabe Thompson
New York Times reporter Fernanda Santos writes a profile about Museum's President Elsie McCabe Thompson as the wife of mayoral candidate, Bill Thompson.
Empire BlueCross BlueShield Launches "Art Heals" Program with Museum for African Art, Greater New York Hospital Association
Empire BlueCross BlueShield, The Museum for African Art, and the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) present “Art Heals,” a unique program that will bring African art to nearly 100 New York hospitals this fall.
NEH grants Museum $350,000 for Dogon Now: Masks in Motion
The National Endowment of the Humanities has granted the Museum for African Art a $350,000 Implementation Grant for Dogon Now: Masks in Motion. This exhibition will bring over 100 objects together to bring to life the performative experience of Dogon masquerade as a living and dynamic tradition that continues to evolve at the turn of the 21st century. It will open at the Museum's new home on Museum Mile in 2012.
Dynasty and Divinity--International Press
UPDATED--8.12.09 Dynasty and Divninty: Ife in Ancient Nigeria continues to receive press in North America, Europe and Africa while it finishes its time in Santander and prepares to open in Madrid in September.
Immigrants: Africans in New York online publication now available!
The groundbreaking symposium Immigrants: Africans in New York is now available, in part, to Museum for African Art website users.
Celebrate Congo! Workshops presented by the Museum for African Art and Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo hosts ten days of art workshops in collaboration withthe Museum for African Art.
Major Exhibition Illuminates Culture and Civilization of Ife, Ancient African City-State
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, a landmark exhibition devoted to the art of Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (in present-day southwestern Nigeria), begins its international tour at the Fundación Marcelino Botín, in Santander, Spain, on June 17, 2009.
Spring 2009 Gala Photos!
The Museum's 25th anniversary annual silent auction and benefit dinner was a wonderful success at Guastavino's this year!
El Anatsui featured in New York Times T Magazine
Today Alexi Worth of the New York Times published an article entitled "A Thousand Bottles" about El Anatsui in the Style Section. You can read it here. The Museum for African Art is presenting the restrospective El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa as one of its inaugural exhibitions in its new building.
NEA grants Museum $100,000 for El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
On November 28, 2008, the Museum for African Art was awarded a grant of $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to partially support its upcoming retrospective exhibition of the work of Ghanaian-born sculptor El Anatsui, with an accompanying catalogue.
El Anatsui Exhibition Receives Support from Warhol and NYSCA
The Museum for African Art recently received support for its highly anticipated inaugural exhibition, El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa, which is set to debut in the Museum’s new building on Museum Mile.
Two Popular Lecture Series Receive Additional Funding
In August, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) awarded the Museum’s two popular lecture series, Time Lines: New Perspectives on Contemporary and Traditional African Art and Conversations with a Continent, $5,000 for the continuation of these programs. This is NYSCA’s second year supporting these series.
PRESS RELEASE: Desert Jewels
Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection
An exhibition of spectacular jewelry and historic photographs from the North African nations of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia opens to the public on October 10 at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermès Collection presents approximately 80 never before exhibited pieces of stunning North African jewelry and 27 late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs by some of the period’s most prominent photographers. Desert Jewels is organized by the Museum for African Art in New York and is sponsored by Merrill Lynch.
PRESS RELEASE: Grass Roots
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, a highly anticipated exhibition created by the Museum for African Art in New York, opens on August 29, 2008 at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, and runs through November 30, 2008. Through the story of the beautiful coiled basket, Grass Roots revisits the history of the southeastern United States and demonstrates the enduring contribution of African people and culture to American life. Featuring over two hundred objects, including baskets made in Africa and the American South, African sculptures, paintings from the Charleston Renaissance, historic photography, and new video, the exhibition follows the history of the coiled basket on two continents and shows how a simple farm tool once used for processing rice has become a work of art and an important symbol of African-American identity.
Awarded $100,000 from MetLife Foundation
The Museum for African Art is honored to have been awarded a grant at the $100,000 level.