Shifting Views

People and Politics in Contemporary African Art

The Baltimore Museum of Arts first exhibition of contemporary art from Africa drawn from its own collection features photographs, prints, and drawings by David Goldblatt, Gavin Jantjes, William Kentridge, Julie Mehretu, Senam Okudzeto, Robin Rhode, and Diane Victor. Each artist offers pointedly political perspectives on the lives of Africans and their diasporic descendants. Find out more about the ‘Shifting Views’ exhibition from the Baltimore Museum of Arts’ website.

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Pan’s Opticon Studies, No. 2 (2009), Robin Rhode and Niels Borch Jensen © Robin Rhode

Margaret Mcingana, who later became famous as the singer Margaret Singana, Zola, Soweto, October 1970 (1970), David Goldblatt The Baltimore Museum of Art © David Goldblatt

All Facts Have Been Changed to Protect the Ignorant (detail) • Senam Okudzeto The Baltimore Museum of Art

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