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ART ON VIEW 102 FIGS. 2 and 3 (above and left): Installation views of Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage. Photos courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photographs by Timothy Tiebout, 2016. CREATIVE AFRICA The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting fi ve exhibitions and a series of related programs that feature a broad spectrum of the arts from across the African continent. Five separate exhibitions are featured under the roof of the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the museum’s famous neoclassical main building. Aside from Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art, the exhibition of historic African art largely drawn from the collection of the Penn Museum that is the main focus of this article, four other exhibitions examine textile design and contemporary fashion, photography, architecture, and textiles, all relating to Africa. These focus mainly on modern and contemporary African art and design or offer a dialog between past and present, tradition and innovation, and local and global concerns. Each calls attention to the continuities and differences between African art forms over the centuries. Three Photographers/ Six Cities Through September 25, 2016 Organized by Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs This installation presents an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of African cities: Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; Lagos, Nigeria; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Bamako and Tombouctou (Timbuktu), Mali. From Akinbode Akinbiyi’s observation of urban centers and Seydou Camara’s examination of Islamic manuscripts to Ananias Léki Dago’s pictures of offbeat locales, the images offer unique perspectives on the contemporary African experience. FIG. 1 (top): Akinbode Akinbiyi, Nigerian (born England, 1946), untitled (Lagos, Nigeria), 2004. Gelatin silver print. 61 × 51 cm. From Three Photographers/Six Cities at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


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