Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts
308 Charles E. Young Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tuesday, July 12 at 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
Ends Jul 12, 2022
This talk will introduce audiences to the revelatory and ongoing research that underpins Particular Histories: Provenance Research in African Arts. Exhibition curator Carlee S. Forbes will elucidate how African objects featured in the exhibition moved from their places of creation to communities and countries near and far; address the changing late-19th and early-20th-century cultural, economic, and political settings in which these objects circulated; touch on the acquisition activities of different actors through whose hands these works passed; and explore the shifting notions of value and authenticity as African material moved through a range of markets and contexts. Image with proper credit (1 per organization max): attached, Attributed to the family of Sokan Akinyoke (Ikoto Quarter, Abeokuta, Nigeria), Ere Egungun (helmet mask), before 1911; wood, pigment, laundry bluing, metal screw; Fowler Museum at UCLA, X65.8237; Gift of the Wellcome Trust RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/openingparticularhistories