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Location:
Becker Gallery
This exhibition examines innovations in Yoruba arts鈥攁t once traditional and modern鈥攄uring a critical moment in Nigeria鈥檚 history, the transition to political independence.
Selected Works
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Detail of adire cloth wrapper, Yoruba culture, Nigeria, mid-20th century. Indigo resist-dyed cotton.
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Detail of wrapper made with wax printing technique, with medallions showing the map of the newly independent Nigerian state and natural resources. Collected in Nigeria, mid-twentieth century.
About
This exhibition examines innovations in Yoruba arts—at once traditional and modern—during a critical moment in Nigeria’s history, the transition to political independence.
Press
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, February 28, 2019