Museum for African Art

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Museum for African Art

The Museum for African Art is located in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York City ( USA ).

assignment

The Museum for African Art is dedicated to the arts and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora and has promoted public understanding and appreciation for this since it was founded in 1984. In addition to exhibitions, the museum also offers educational programs and a shop that sells authentic hand-made African handicrafts becomes. Since its inception, the museum has realized nearly 60 exhibitions, which have subsequently been shown in almost 140 locations in the United States and in 15 other countries worldwide.

history

Started as the Center for African Art , the museum's founding director was Susan Mullin Vogel , who previously worked as a curator in the Department of Primitive Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . During her time as director of the Museum for African Art, Susan Mullin Vogel realized exhibitions that questioned the way in which African art was previously presented to a Western audience. The exhibitions are worth mentioning in this context "Art / Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections" (1988), "EXHIBITION- ism : Museums and African Art" (1994) and "Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art" (1991).

In 2005, the museum was one of 406 social and cultural institutions in New York City to receive a portion of a $ 20 million Carnegie Corporation pot, made possible by a corresponding donation from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Carnegie Corporation has been.

The Museum for African Art is sometimes confused with the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC .

Moving and expanding

The museum will move into its new home on Museum Mile at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in New York City's Manhattan neighborhood in Harlem in the second half of 2012 . The new building was designed by Robert AM Stern . Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this is "the first newly built museum on Museum Mile since the grand Guggenheim opened in 1959." (English: “The first new construction of a museum on Museum Mile since the great Guggenheim opened in 1959.”) At the same time, the museum is more accessible to many New Yorkers and tourists. The new building will provide the museum with a theater, education center, library, seminar rooms, event rooms, a restaurant and a museum shop, an area of ​​around 8,400 m², of which around 1,500 m² will be exhibition space. In addition, the building will contain a number of apartments.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage Museum for African Art . Retrieved January 23, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Article New York Times . Retrieved January 3, 2011. 
  3. ^ Carnegie Corporation ( Memento of May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved January 3, 2011. 
  4. ^ Sewell Chan: Museum for African Art Finds its Place . In: The New York Times . February 9, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2008.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 47 "  N , 73 ° 55 ′ 41.9"  W.