Samuel Fosso’s photographs enter the MOMA’s collection
Great news! Congolese Artist Samuel Fosso’s photographic series ” African Spirits” has been added to MOMA’s permanent collection after a unanimous vote by the MOMA’s acquisition committee. This process has taken two years at least!! It is fantastic and important series. Read more about it on my blog post of April 2013
African Photography at the Metropolitan Museum
This summer I had the good fortune to be asked to write an essay on the photographic work of Nigerian photographer George Osodi .As a result I found myself esconced in the Metropolitan Museum Watson Library doing research and struggling over each word of each sentence! This was not to be a blog post but […]
Love in Africa
The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection, Houston I love this photograph of Malick Sedibe! Shortly after my return from Kenya I went to Houston for the opening of the exhibition Progress of Love at the Menil Collection. I had co-sponsored one of the video of the artist Zina Saro-Wiva on Kissing! Several […]
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