"The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, US, has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the enslaved 19th-century potter David Drake to his present-day descendants. By the terms of the contract, one vessel will remain on loan to the museum for at least two years. The other-known as the "Poem Jar"-has been purchased back by the museum from the heirs for an undisclosed sum and now comes with "a certificate of ethical ownership"."
"At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream opens on Monday. Lam, who was of African and Chinese descent, is now widely regarded as a key, and singular, figure in Modernist painting. Connected in his long life to the Surrealists and Pablo Picasso, and to literary greats including Aimé Césaire and Edouard Glissant, his distinctive practice was above all centred on a profound engagement with Black diasporic culture."
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will return two 1857 works by enslaved potter David Drake to his descendants. One vessel will remain on loan for at least two years; the other, the "Poem Jar", was repurchased from the heirs and carries "a certificate of ethical ownership". The Museum of Modern Art opens Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream, presenting Lam as a key Modernist engaged with Surrealists, Picasso and Black diasporic culture. Beverly Adams and Christophe Cherix are lead curators. The Work of the Week is Domenico Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi (1488) at the Ospedale degli Innocenti.
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