From initiation rites to harvest festivals, many traditional African rituals require participants to don masks and elaborate costumes that transform their wearers into spirits, beasts, or ancestral ...
Masquerades are cultural or religious events that often feature masked dancers embodying various spirits. Omabe masquerades are believed to be representatives of the ancestors of Nsukka. The region ...
“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 ...
“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, ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The breathtaking new ...
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, ...
An installation view of “New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo: Sesthasak Boonchai, , courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art Long ...
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 ...
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NOMA’s New African Masquerades Exhibit is Remarkable
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The breathtaking new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art showcases masquerading cultures of West Africa. New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations ...
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