In 2015, the Harn Museum of Art organized Kabas and Couture: Contemporary Ghanaian Fashion, one of the first American exhibitions to focus exclusively on the fashion culture of Ghana, a country in West Africa. At the time, very few fashion exhibitions included designers from the African continent, much less providing...
This exhibition provides a glimpse of the wide diversity of genres, media and inspirations of Haitian art from 1969 to the first decade of the 21st century. Within this variety, it reveals a common vision shared by an array of Haitian artists. Resilient Visions includes images of everyday life and historical scenes...
In Western art museums, African objects are placed on pristine pedestals, under glass, and as far from their places of origin as possible. Ceramic pots, made for bringing water from a stream and placed in the kitchen, posts that once graced a palace courtyard where kings were enthroned, carved figures...
The exhibition presents 30 masks from the Harn collection, supplemented with loaned works from private collections. Drawing on the Harn’s strengths, most will be from West Africa (Nigeria, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone), with some from Central Africa (DCR, Cameroon). Masks from the mid-20th century to the...
