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Visitors look at the artwork "The Matter of Time" by US artist Richard Serra during the presentation of the "25 Years of the Museum Collection" exhibition on the 25th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on Oct. 18, 2022.

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Photos: Remembering Richard Serra, a world-renowned 'poet' of metals

1:19pm March 28, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

American artist Richard Serra died this week at the age of 85. Serra was world-renowned for his large-scale metal sculptures.

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Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) by Kenyan-British painter Michael Armitage, was inspired by an attack on ferry passengers by paramilitary police in Nairobi. The painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A 'modern masterpiece' paints pandemic chaos on cloth made of fig-tree bark

8:14am September 30, 2023

by Diane Cole

Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted Curfew after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece."

Karl Ohiri: Untitled, from "The Archive of Becoming." Ohiri features old negatives and prints that have been transformed by heat, humidity and time.

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Unusual photos at MoMA conjure the beaches, bustle and history of Lagos

11:40am July 29, 2023

by Diane Cole

For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art showcases current West African photographers. The exhibit depicts the colonial past, beautiful beaches and boisterous protests of the Nigerian city.

Vision divine du 11 Mars 1948, is a series of eight drawings by Ivoirian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. They depict a vision that Bouabré said he experienced that year: "seven colored suns" creating a "circle of beauty around their 'mother-sun.' " Thi

A vision of 7 suns led a self-taught Ivoirian artist to draw the everyday and the holy

3:13pm August 09, 2022

by Max Barnhart

The Museum of Modern Art shows the colorful works of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a prolific artist from the Ivory Coast who documented his Bété culture — and even created a pictograph language.