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The African Museum Professionals Workshop—which took
place in February 2002 and began at MoMA—traveled to
three American cities under the sponsorship of The International
Council, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, and The Rockefeller
Foundation. In New York, participants attended the opening
of the landmark exhibition The Short Century: Independence
and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994 at
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. This was the first workshop
at which participants gave reports not only on their own institutions,
but also on contemporary art and artists in their home countries.
Participants subsequently traveled to Washington, D.C., in
a program arranged by MoMA and the National Museum of African
Art. The workshop concluded in Los Angeles with a program
organized by MoMA with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles.
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Top left: Participants in African Museum
Professionals Workshop and MoMA staff, 2002. Enlargement
Top center: Simon Ikpakronyi, Principal Curator
at the National Gallery of Art in Abuja, Nigeria, delivers a slide
lecture about his home institution during the African Museum Professionals
Workshop, 2002. Enlargement
Top right: Skunder Boghossian. Ju Ju’s
Wedding. 1964. Tempera and metallic paint on cut and torn cardboard,
21 1/8 x 20" (53.6 x 50.7 cm). Blanchette Rockefeller Fund.
Enlargement
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