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African Innovations Now Open!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

After many months of object review, checklist creation, cross-departmental consultation, budgeting, conservation, design, research, writing, photography, editing, construction, painting, installation, and lighting, I am pleased to report that African Innovations is now open to the public. Our ace Technology team … Continue reading…

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Elvis is in the building

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Kerith Koss

Elvis is at the Brooklyn Museum and not where you’d expect to find him—in the new installation of the Museum’s African galleries, African Innovations. Brooklyn’s Elvis is a ceremonial mask of the Nyau Society of the Chewa peoples, who reside … Continue reading…

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Please Touch

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Textiles are a crucial element to the story I wanted to tell in African Innovations. Immensely varied in media, form, content and use, textile arts are found in every corner of the continent. They have played important roles in the … Continue reading…

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Installation in Progress

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

One of the many adaptations that moving the African collection into the South Gallery on the First Floor has required has been adjusting to a space that is both smaller and considerably more open than the old Arts of Africa … Continue reading…

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Arts of Africa Gives Way to African Innovations

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Recent visitors to the museum may have noticed some increasingly dramatic changes to the first floor—first, a new series of walls began to rise in the South Gallery space beyond the Great Hall. As of this week, the African galleries … Continue reading…

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