Saturday, December 12, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Special Exhibition Gallery, 1st floor, Gallery 199
Free with Museum admission
Join curator Alisa LaGamma and journalist Howard French for a conversation on works in Kongo: Power and Majesty that address the relationships between leaders in this region of Central Africa and the world at large. They will reflect on how that engagement has shifted over time, from the earliest moment of trade with Portugal in the late 15th century to the early 20th century and the advent of colonialism. The works assembled in this special exhibition were dispersed through global trade networks that inextricably tied this region
to Europe and the Americas – and more recently, have linked its destiny to that of China.
Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts
of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Howard French, Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and author of China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa, named one of 100 Notable Books of 2014 by The New York Times.
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Kongo: Power and Majesty runs through January 3, 2016.