African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde

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When: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:00pm - 6:00pm

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: $25

Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University

Sarah Lewis, faculty, Yale University School of Art

Introduced Yaëlle Biro, Assistant Curator for the Arts of Africa

Nell Painter, in conversation with Sarah Lewis, examines the legacy of the first interaction of white collectors and taste-makers with African art and African-American artists one hundred years ago — and reveals how this hidden history is an essential backdrop

for understanding key cultural, social and political aspects of race in America. This talk is in conjunction with African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde, a show highlighting African art’s arrival in New York and its impact on Modernism in the United States.

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