A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art features Congolese urban art, or popular painting, that portrays the life and tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo after its independence from Belgium in 1960. A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art is available for travel.

Organized by the Museum for African Art, Desert Jewels features approximately eighty examples of exquisite North African jewelry and nearly thirty original photographs taken in Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Next on view at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan from May 8 to August 8, 2010. 

Collected over three decades by Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, this unique collection reveals the astonishing power of traditional North African jewelry design. Crafted from silver and semiprecious stones, the jewelry, from simple ornaments that would be worn by a child to elaborate necklaces for women of wealth, illustrates the cultural diversity as well as the common themes that run through North African societies. The photographs in the exhibition depict the daily life of North African people as well as the breathtaking landscapes and archeological monuments that caught the attention of Westerners at the time. These images are by the period's most prominent photographers including Scotsman George Washington Wilson, the Neurdein brothers from France, and Turkish photographer Pascal Sabah.

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), began its international tour at the Fundación Marcelino Botín, in Santander, Spain, on June 17, 2009.

In Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art the humble but beautifully crafted coiled basket, made in Africa and in the southern United States, becomes a prism through which audiences learn about the artistry characteristic of Africans in America from the 17th century to the present.