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200 stunning images in this companion book to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art exhibition celebrates more than 60 LGBTQ+ African artists More than 200 stunning images represent a range of media, including painting, photography, digital art, fashion, installation, and performance. The empowering and evocative imagery makes visible marginalized bodies and lives: Athi-Patra Ruga’s tapestry The text approaches artworks at an intimate level and places them in larger historical and artistic contexts. Grouping the works in thematic sections draws parallels across art and fosters ongoing conversations: In its continental;and diasporic survey of queer African art and artists,
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The SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART has an extraordinary collection of African art dating from the tenth century to the present day as well as a world-renowned photographic archive and library. KEVIN D. DUMOUCHELLE leads the curatorial department at the National Museum of African Art, where he has developed exhibitions that include Heroes: Principles of African Greatness; Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts, which won an Association of Art Museums Curators Award for Excellence, among others. He has written books and articles on a wide range of topics and curated exhibitions on both contemporary and historical African art.
