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fromBrooklyn Paper
1 day ago
Brooklyn

From happy hours to orchestra concerts, Brooklyn Museum unveils April lineup of community programming * Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Museum offers diverse events in April, including art exhibitions, music performances, and family workshops, celebrating creativity and accessibility.
fromTime Out New York
2 months ago
Music

Brooklyn Museum's free First Saturdays return February 7!

Brooklyn Museum's free First Saturdays returns February 7 with Black History Month programming including music, performances, exhibitions, art-making and late-night access.
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 day ago
Brooklyn

From happy hours to orchestra concerts, Brooklyn Museum unveils April lineup of community programming * Brooklyn Paper

Photography
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Photographs of Mali on the Cusp of Independence

Seydou Keïta's studio portraits juxtapose ornate subjects with visible Malian soil, conveying place, identity, and a society undergoing transformation.
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fromAesthetica Magazine
3 months ago

Aesthetica Magazine - Seydou Keita's Studio Reimagined

Seydou Keïta's portraits use tactility—clothing, accessories, and textures—to express individual identity amid Bamako's mid-century social and political transformation.
fromWallpaper*
5 months ago

A lens on West Africa - discover the portraits of photographer Seydou Keita

Celebrated as one of the most outstanding 20th-century photographers, Keïta ran a photography studio in the Malian capital, Bamako, between the late 1940s and early 1960s, where he shot black and white portraits of fashionably dressed people, with the patterned backdrops that he is perhaps best known for. He also documented the social and political landscape in pre- and post-independence Mali. That work was introduced to the West in the early 1990s, first anonymously in New York and then later identified, in group and solo exhibitions
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