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Afro Atlantic Histories, LACMA
Exhibition
Afro Atlantic Histories
11 Dec 2022 – 10 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 19:00
Address
- 5905 Wilshire Blvd
- Los Angeles
California - CA 90036
- United States
Afro-Atlantic Histories charts the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies in the African diaspora.
About
Through a series of dialogues across time, the exhibition features artworks produced in Africa, Europe, and the Americas in the last four centuries to reexamine—from a global perspective—histories and stories of enslavement, resilience, and the struggle for liberation.
The exhibition is organized around six groupings: Maps and Margins, Enslavements and Emancipations, Everyday Lives, Rites and Rhythms, Portraits, and Resistances and Activism. Each section considers the critical impact of the African diaspora reflected in historic and contemporary artworks.
Histórias Afro-Atlânticas originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil, in 2018. Touring venues in the U.S. include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. This is the only presentation on the West Coast.
