Name: Member Gallery Talk: Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
Start: 2026-09-12T10:00
End: 2026-09-12T11:00
Location: Floor 3

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Next on Sat, Sep 12, 10:00–11:00 a.m.

MoMA, Floor 3

Installation view of Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 5, 2026–January 2, 2027. Photo: Martin Parsekian

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Dive deeper into Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa on this free, member-only tour.

Learn more about the first major exhibition to examine modern architecture from the late 1950s through the early 1980s in the context of political independence—a period of dramatic change that sparked a boom in cultural production.

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