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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.

Dorothea Lange, White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco (1933). Sarah Meister, MoMA's photography curator, sees new resonance in Lange's photographs of aid lines like this one, which stood nearby Lange's studio in Northern California.

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'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange

4:22pm April 30, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The American photographer intimately documented the upheavals of the Great Depression. Now, amid the upheavals of the coronavirus, Lange's portraits of humanity and adversity still have a lot to say.

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"The Departure" from AÃ¯da Muluneh's "The World is 9" collection. The title comes from a saying of Muluneh's grandmother â meaning that the world will never be a perfect 10.

With Paint And A Camera, She's Forging A New Artistic Vision Of Africa

7:07am April 22, 2018

by Natalie Jacewicz

The Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh spends an hour and a half decorating her models for photos that celebrate her country's past and present. Her work is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art.