Cross-cultural exchanges from Vietnam, Ethiopia and the Caribbean

Solo exhibitions also abound, from Charles Gaines to Harry Smith, while women of Land Art and Fluxus continue to vibrate in major exhibitions.< /p>
Major exhibitions of historical art on a global scale are still rare, after the pandemic. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art persists in doing it, and no one does it better globally. I have great expectations for “Africa and Byzantium” (November 19-March 3, 2024), an exhibition on roots and routes that promises to shed light on cultural exchanges between the medieval African kingdoms of Egypt, Nubia and of Ethiopia and the Byzantine Empire. across the Mediterranean. There will certainly be surprises and incomparable beauties.
In addition, I will travel to Baltimore to see "Ethiopia at the Crossroads" at the Walters Art Museum (December .3-March 3), which has an outstanding collection of Ethiopian religious art. When the “African Zion” exhibit curated by Walters was shown at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture in Harlem in 1994, it blew my mind. Three decades later, some of these same treasures will be complemented by examples of outstanding work being done today in Ethiopia.
Image "The Virgin and Child with Archangels, Scenes from the Life of Christ and Ethiopian Saints", early 17th century, tempera on panel.Credit... The Walters Art Museum< /figure>
Autumn will be rich in contemporary personal museum exhibitions. I was waiting for someone to organize an investigation of photographer An-My Le, born in Vietnam and who arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1975. Her subtle images of a world steeped in militarism (the Vietnam War re- stagings staged on what were once Confederate battlefields) will be included in the Museum of Modern Art's "An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers" (November 5-March 16), The Two Rivers of title being the Mekong and the Mississippi.
“Charles Gaines: 1992-2023” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami (November 16-March 17) will pick up where a previous retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem of this pioneering conceptualist's work has come to a standstill. And his art – politically charged and harmonically steeped – has grown more varied and imaginative with each passing year. (His monumental 2022-23 sculpture, “Moving Chains,” installed on Governors Island, Manhattan, was stunning.)
Another protean and long-running contemporary career in full bloom will be documented in "

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Cross-cultural exchanges from Vietnam, Ethiopia and the Caribbean

Solo exhibitions also abound, from Charles Gaines to Harry Smith, while women of Land Art and Fluxus continue to vibrate in major exhibitions.< /p>

Major exhibitions of historical art on a global scale are still rare, after the pandemic. But the Metropolitan Museum of Art persists in doing it, and no one does it better globally. I have great expectations for “Africa and Byzantium” (November 19-March 3, 2024), an exhibition on roots and routes that promises to shed light on cultural exchanges between the medieval African kingdoms of Egypt, Nubia and of Ethiopia and the Byzantine Empire. across the Mediterranean. There will certainly be surprises and incomparable beauties.

In addition, I will travel to Baltimore to see "Ethiopia at the Crossroads" at the Walters Art Museum (December .3-March 3), which has an outstanding collection of Ethiopian religious art. When the “African Zion” exhibit curated by Walters was shown at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture in Harlem in 1994, it blew my mind. Three decades later, some of these same treasures will be complemented by examples of outstanding work being done today in Ethiopia.

Image "The Virgin and Child with Archangels, Scenes from the Life of Christ and Ethiopian Saints", early 17th century, tempera on panel.Credit... The Walters Art Museum< /figure>

Autumn will be rich in contemporary personal museum exhibitions. I was waiting for someone to organize an investigation of photographer An-My Le, born in Vietnam and who arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1975. Her subtle images of a world steeped in militarism (the Vietnam War re- stagings staged on what were once Confederate battlefields) will be included in the Museum of Modern Art's "An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers" (November 5-March 16), The Two Rivers of title being the Mekong and the Mississippi.

“Charles Gaines: 1992-2023” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami (November 16-March 17) will pick up where a previous retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem of this pioneering conceptualist's work has come to a standstill. And his art – politically charged and harmonically steeped – has grown more varied and imaginative with each passing year. (His monumental 2022-23 sculpture, “Moving Chains,” installed on Governors Island, Manhattan, was stunning.)

Another protean and long-running contemporary career in full bloom will be documented in "