If a dozen masterpiece Renaissance sculptures, made in an unknown and wildly unorthodox style, suddenly turned up in the Italian countryside, the find would make the news. When the equivalent of such a discovery occurred in the early 1970s, however, it went all but unreported because the sculptures were from Africa, and only some startled scholars and collectors took note. Now, more than 40 years on, the news finally hits New York with the arrival of “Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art” at the Metropolitan Museum, one of the great sculpture shows of the season.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:46:28 +0000
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