West African Art

NEW YORK — This fall, the International Center of Photography (ICP) presents a new exhibition focusing on the work of five emerging Black artists who have turned the lens inward to explore and capture the “unseen” moments of their lives during a time of unprecedented change. INWARD: Reflections on Interiority features newly commissioned photographs by […]

NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday the acquisition of new works by Wangechi Mutu. Two sculptures, The Seated I (2019) and The Seated III (2019) have been acquired from Mutu’s series of four bronze sculptures collectively titled The NewOnes will free Us, originally created for the museum’s inaugural commission for The […]

NEW YORK – Long after gaining a foothold in the United States in the 17th century by selling German-imported musical instruments, the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. became synonymous with jukeboxes in the early 1930s. The firm was founded in 1856 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later relocated to Detroit and Tonawanda, N.Y. It was well known for […]