“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” offers a close look at contemporary West African masquerade focusing on artists from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Sierra ...

Rich in culture, expressive in movement and transformative in feeling are just some expressions that best describe the San Antonio Art Museum’s exhibition “New African Masquerades: Artistic ...

A pair of Kimi masks (headpiece carved by David Sanou in the studio of André Sanou) performing greetings with the lead griot Tchiedo playing his drum behind them, Bindougosso district, Bobo-Dioulasso, ...

The Frist Art Museum will present New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at contemporary West African masquerade. Organized ...

“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, ...

Egúngún Àgbà (elder) masquerade performer from West Africa with horns that hint at a familial lineage of hunters or warriors. (photo by and courtesy Margaret Drewal) This article is part of a series ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Frist Art Museum presents New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at ...

afamain copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. What is the meaning of masks and masquerades in African traditions and how can we understand their role in rituals and performances ...

Hart mined the journals and letters of Gustav Reinhold Nylander, early nineteenth-century C.M.S. missionary to Sierra Leone, for nuggets of information relating to indigenous artifacts and customs of ...