""We led by researching object biographies which allowed us to understand the objects' full histories. Listening to the objects became a natural framework to apply to the galleries while firmly recentering African and Afrodiasporic perspectives.""
""The museum received its first works of African art at the start of the 20th century. In 1923, it became the first American institution to exhibit 1,400 such relics as art rather than anthropological specimens under Stewart Culin.""
Brooklyn Museum will undergo a $13 million renovation to create a 6,400-square-foot space for its African art collection, set to open in Fall 2027. The new Arts of Africa galleries will showcase 300 works spanning from antiquity to the present, emphasizing African and diasporic perspectives. The museum has a long history with African art, having first exhibited such works in 1923. Curators Ernestine White-Mifetu and Annissa Malvoisin are leading the project, focusing on the objects' histories to inform the new display.
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