Last Sunday, I watched this segment on The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart with Curator Kanitra Fletcher about the National Gallery of Art’s latest exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories. After watching Jonathan’s segment, I decided to use my Good Friday (first time having it off in years!) to check out the exhibit. The exhibition takes an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of Black and African people since the 17th century. More than 130 works of art, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, and time-based media by artists from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, bring these narratives to life.
I believe the exhibit did a good job capturing the African Diaspora and the interconnectedness between South America through showing traditions, rituals, and human existence. One of the pieces displayed is titled Depreciation by Cameron Rowland, who presented a set of legal documents that record the purchase of one acre of land on Edisto Island, S.C. I’ll let you dive deeper into the significance of the documents through this article. I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit and recommend others to experience it.
This exhibit was co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museu de Arte de Sāo Paulo in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition will be available until July 17, 2022. The next place exhibit will be shown at is Los Angeles County Museum of Art , December 11, 2022–April 30, 2023.
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