Current Exhibitions
The Progress of Love
December 2, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Numerous scholars have addressed the ways media, technology, and capitalism have affected Western notions of love over the last few centuries. Little attention, however, has been paid to the impact of these forces on the conception of love in Africa, or even to the subject itself. The Progress of Love explores romantic love, self-love, friendship, familial affect, love of one’s country, and other bonds in and around the continent.
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Claes Oldenburg: Strange Eggs
September 20, 2012 – February 3, 2013
The Strange Eggs are a remarkable group of collages by American artist Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929). Completed over the course of two years after he moved to New York City from Chicago in 1956, they constitute some of the artist's earliest known works and represent a pivotal moment of experimentation by Oldenburg.
Caption: Claes Oldenburg, Strange Eggs V, 1957-58. Collage, mounted on cardboard. Collection of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.
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