Happenings
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
14 Sep 11 to 4 Mar 12
Exhibition
African art
National Museum of African Art , Washington, DC , U.S.A.
Exhibition
African art
This exhibition unmasks the fluid and dynamic nature of art and the local spheres of interaction, adaptation, and transformation in which objects have moved. Over the centuries, the Benue River Valley witnessed a confluence of peoples, institutions, and ideas that is only now beginning to be understood as having resulted in one of the major artistic legacies of Africa.