The curator spoke to Artnet News on the occasion of the Met's stunning new exhibition, “Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara." Installation view of ...
Max Hollein is the Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Editor’s note: Speaking at the opening of an art exhibit earlier this year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio ...
Exhibition reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African arts (Los Angeles) 55 (1) 2022, pages 83-85. N1.A258 AFA. Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in Washington Post (Washington, DC) February 9, 2020, ...
The exhibition will juxtapose massive monuments with miniature sculptures from the formidable Saharan empires of Ghana, Mali, Songhay and Segu. Sculptures featured in the ‘Sahel: Art and Empires on ...
“Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara,” which opens on Jan. 30 at the Met, tells the epic story of a network of African cultures that flourished, from the fourth century through the ...
Art Wolfe follows the Niger river road to the villages of the cliff-dwelling Dogon people. Mali is more than the Sahara; it is a place where the Niger River flows past some of Africa’s unique tribal ...
The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly different ideas about fun. People enjoying the beach in Sahel el-Tayeb, a village ...
Max Hollein is the Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Editor’s note: Speaking at the opening of an art exhibit earlier this year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio ...