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Afro-Atlantic Histories

May 03, 2023

Afro-Atlantic Histories (Portuguese: Histórias Afro-Atlânticas) is the title of a touring art exhibition first held jointly at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil in 2018.[1] The exhibition is made up of artworks and historical artifacts from and about the African diaspora, specifically focusing "on the 'ebbs and flows' among Africa, Americas, Caribbean and also Europe."[1][2] Built around the concept of histórias, a Portuguese term that can include fictional and non-fictional narratives, Afro-Atlantic Histories explores the artistic, political, social, and personal impacts and legacies of the Transatlantic slave trade.[3] The exhibition has been hailed by critics as a landmark show of diasporic African art.[4][5][6] Following the original 2018 exhibition, MASP partnered with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to bring a version of the exhibition to several museums in the United States from 2021 to 2024.[2][3]

Afro-Atlantic Histories
Original 2018 exhibition catalogue, featuring Zeferina (2018) by Dalton Paula
DateJune 29–October 21, 2018 (Original exhibition); October 24, 2021–January 17, 2022; April 10–July 17, 2022; December 11, 2022–September 10, 2023
VenueSão Paulo Museum of Art and Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LocationSão Paulo; Houston; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles
ThemeDiasporic African art

History

Afro-Atlantic Histories was first shown at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake from June 29 to October 21, 2018, as part of MASP's ongoing Histórias exhibition series, each exploring a different community, identity, or artistic practice in depth.[7][8][1][9] The exhibition was curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Ayrson Heráclito, Hélio Menezes, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, and Tomás Toledo.[1]

Following the first exhibition, then-Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) curator Kanitra Fletcher worked with the original curators to adapt the show for MFAH and the National Gallery of Art (NGA), where she was named the NGA's first Associate Curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic Art in 2021.[10][4] The adapted version featured a smaller number of artworks with a broader geographic focus.[4] Molly Donovan of the NGA and Steven Nelson of the NGA's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts contributed to the curation of the American tour.[2] The exhibition was shown at MFAH from October 24, 2021 to January 17, 2022 and the NGA from April 10 to July 17, 2022.[3][2]

The opening reception for Afro-Atlantic Histories at the NGA was attended by Vice President Kamala Harris.[4][6] Over 140,000 people visited the show at the NGA and a museum spokesperson said it was "one of the exhibits that has generated the most interest in recent years."[11]

The exhibition opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in December 2022, and is scheduled to travel to the Dallas Museum of Art from 2023 to 2024.[12][2]

Themes

Original exhibition themes

Afro-Atlantic Histories was originally organized into eight thematic sections, six of which were located at MASP and two of which were located at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake.[9] The original exhibition included a large number of works by Afro-Brazilian artists as well as pieces by artists from around the world.[5][9] Artworks for the original exhibition were loaned from a variety of international museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Menil Collection, Houston; Uffizi Gallery, Florence; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; National Portrait Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana; and National Gallery of Jamaica.[9]

Themes at MASP:[9]

  • Maps and Margins (Mapas e Margens)
  • Daily Life (Vida Cotidiana)
  • Celebrations and Religions (Festas e Religiões)
  • Portraits (Retratos)
  • Routes and Trances: Africa, Jamaica, Bahia (Rotas e Transes: África, Jamaica, Bahia)
  • African-Atlantic Modernisms (Modernismos Afro-Âtlanticos)

Themes at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake:[9]

  • Emancipations (Emancipações)
  • Activism and Resistance (Ativismos e Resistências)

Adapted exhibition themes

The American tour of Afro-Atlantic Histories featured six of the eight themes from the original exhibition, with several themes slightly modified.[13] NGA curator Kanitra Fletcher said that while the changes to the exhibition contextualized it for North American audiences and included more works by African Americans, "we're not thinking of it as an African American show," further noting a "global Blackness" present in both the original and adapted versions.[14]

Themes on U.S. tour and example works:[13]

Artists

The first showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories at MASP and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake included 450 works, ranging from the 16th to 21st centuries, by 214 artists.[1] Artists in the original exhibition included Maxwell Alexandre, José Alves de Olinda, Sidney Amaral, Benny Andrews, Emanoel Araújo, Thomas Jones Barker, Agostinho Batista de Freitas, John T. Biggers, Skunder Boghossian, Luiz Braga, Agostinho Brunias, Flávio Cerqueira, Timótheo da Costa, Mário Cravo, Jr., Jean-Baptiste Debret, Beauford Delaney, Mestre Didi, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Augustus Earle, Albert Eckhout, Mel Edwards, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Nona Faustine, Théodore Géricault, Adenor Gondim, Titus Kaphar, Victor Patricio Landaluze, Jaime Lauriano, Ernest Mancoba, Edna Manley, David Miller Sr., Marepe, Paulo Nazareth, Uche Okeke, Moisés Patrício, Dalton Paula, Rosana Paulino, Frans Post, Edouard Antoine Renard, Faith Ringgold, Glauber Rocha, Vincent Rosenblatt, Cameron Rowland, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Hank Willis Thomas, Rubem Valentim, Carlos Vegara, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, Barrington Watson, Osmond Watson, Ellis Wilson, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.[1][5]

The adapted American tour featured over 130 works from the same time range. The adapted version included a number of core works from the original showing along with newly-included works from the NGA and MFAH's collections, as well as several works from other North American museums.[3][2] Artists with works new to the exhibition on the American tour include Ernest Crichlow, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Glenn Ligon, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Zanele Muholi, Faith Ringgold, Alma Thomas, Kara Walker, and John Quincy Adams Ward.[2][48][49]

Reception

Writing in The New York Times, Holland Cotter called the original showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories "piece for piece one of the most enthralling shows I’ve seen in years, with one visual detonation after another," further describing the exhibition as "fundamentally about resistance, and black sovereignty. It’s about change, not chains."[5] Hyperallergic listed the original showing as one of the 20 best exhibitions of 2018 outside the United States, with critic Seph Rodney calling it "breathtaking in ambition, scope, and display," and hailing it as "one of those few exhibitions that actually delivered what it said it would."[50]ARTnews named the Saõ Paulo showing the 3rd most important art exhibition of the 2010s.[51]

Following the opening of the American tour at the NGA, Philip Kennicott wrote in The Washington Post that the mixture of artistic media & time periods in the show "makes for some stunning juxtapositions," adding that the show "has tremendous symbolic importance for the National Gallery" due to its location in the NGA's West Building, the wing of the museum traditionally devoted to canonical artworks that has long included very few Black artists.[4] Describing the NGA exhibition in ARTnews, Alex Greenberger wrote that "though Afro-Atlantic Histories features depictions of violence, it also proposes that, under the most dehumanizing circumstances, Black people across the world found means of self-possession."[52] Writing for The Guardian about the NGA showing, David Smith said the exhibition "resists a grand narrative or definitive history but contains multitudes," noting that the first and final works of the exhibition - Hank Willis Thomas' A Place to Call Home (Africa America Reflection) (2020) and David Hammons' African-American Flag (1990), respectively - "form powerful bookends."[6]

Writing in The New Yorker, critic Julian Lucas called the NGA showing "a powerful corrective" to traditional historical narratives of slavery that do not include Afro-Latino perspectives, further noting that the show "explores the creation of transnational unity by people of African descent." Lucas also praised the juxtapositions of works in the show; specifically, the contrasts between Arthur Jafa's Ex-Slave Gordon (2017), Eustáquio Neves' Untitled (1995), and McPherson & Oliver's The Scourged Back (c.1863); between Sidney Amaral's Neck Leash (Who Shall Speak on Our Behalf?) (2014) and Kara Walker's Restraint (2009); and between James Phillips' Description of a slave ship (1789), Emanoel Araújo's The Ship (2007), José Alves de Olinda's Slave Ship (2019), and Rosana Paulino's The Permanence of Structures (2017). Writing about the "Portraits" section of the exhibition, Lucas noted that works like Flávio Cerqueira's Amnesia (2015) and Samuel Fosso's Self-Portrait (as Liberated American Woman of the ’70s) (1997) represent "contemporary challenges to the erasure of Blackness in the West."[53]

Critic Chase Quinn wrote in frieze that the NGA showing "[serves] as a quiet rebuttal to representations of the ‘Black experience’ that historically isolate Black history in the broader context of Western history." Quinn hailed the exhibition as a "benchmark" for its message that non-Black people are inherently intertwined with Black history.[54] Writing in the conservative National Review, Brian T. Allen negatively reviewed the show's curatorial texts and time range, calling them "arbitrary ... jumping from one place to the next," but praised the art included in the show.[55]

Gallery

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May 03, 2023
afro, atlantic, histories, portuguese, histórias, afro, atlânticas, title, touring, exhibition, first, held, jointly, são, paulo, museum, masp, instituto, tomie, ohtake, brazil, 2018, exhibition, made, artworks, historical, artifacts, from, about, african, dia. Afro Atlantic Histories Portuguese Historias Afro Atlanticas is the title of a touring art exhibition first held jointly at the Sao Paulo Museum of Art MASP and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil in 2018 1 The exhibition is made up of artworks and historical artifacts from and about the African diaspora specifically focusing on the ebbs and flows among Africa Americas Caribbean and also Europe 1 2 Built around the concept of historias a Portuguese term that can include fictional and non fictional narratives Afro Atlantic Histories explores the artistic political social and personal impacts and legacies of the Transatlantic slave trade 3 The exhibition has been hailed by critics as a landmark show of diasporic African art 4 5 6 Following the original 2018 exhibition MASP partnered with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D C to bring a version of the exhibition to several museums in the United States from 2021 to 2024 2 3 Afro Atlantic HistoriesOriginal 2018 exhibition catalogue featuring Zeferina 2018 by Dalton PaulaDateJune 29 October 21 2018 Original exhibition October 24 2021 January 17 2022 April 10 July 17 2022 December 11 2022 September 10 2023VenueSao Paulo Museum of Art and Instituto Tomie Ohtake Museum of Fine Arts Houston National Gallery of Art Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLocationSao Paulo Houston Washington D C Los AngelesThemeDiasporic African art Contents 1 History 2 Themes 2 1 Original exhibition themes 2 2 Adapted exhibition themes 3 Artists 4 Reception 5 Gallery 6 ReferencesHistory EditAfro Atlantic Histories was first shown at the Sao Paulo Museum of Art MASP and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake from June 29 to October 21 2018 as part of MASP s ongoing Historias exhibition series each exploring a different community identity or artistic practice in depth 7 8 1 9 The exhibition was curated by Adriano Pedrosa Ayrson Heraclito Helio Menezes Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Tomas Toledo 1 Following the first exhibition then Museum of Fine Arts Houston MFAH curator Kanitra Fletcher worked with the original curators to adapt the show for MFAH and the National Gallery of Art NGA where she was named the NGA s first Associate Curator of African American and Afro Diasporic Art in 2021 10 4 The adapted version featured a smaller number of artworks with a broader geographic focus 4 Molly Donovan of the NGA and Steven Nelson of the NGA s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts contributed to the curation of the American tour 2 The exhibition was shown at MFAH from October 24 2021 to January 17 2022 and the NGA from April 10 to July 17 2022 3 2 The opening reception for Afro Atlantic Histories at the NGA was attended by Vice President Kamala Harris 4 6 Over 140 000 people visited the show at the NGA and a museum spokesperson said it was one of the exhibits that has generated the most interest in recent years 11 The exhibition opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in December 2022 and is scheduled to travel to the Dallas Museum of Art from 2023 to 2024 12 2 Themes EditOriginal exhibition themes Edit Afro Atlantic Histories was originally organized into eight thematic sections six of which were located at MASP and two of which were located at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake 9 The original exhibition included a large number of works by Afro Brazilian artists as well as pieces by artists from around the world 5 9 Artworks for the original exhibition were loaned from a variety of international museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles National Gallery of Art Washington D C Menil Collection Houston Uffizi Gallery Florence Musee du quai Branly Paris National Portrait Gallery London Victoria and Albert Museum London National Gallery of Denmark Copenhagen National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana and National Gallery of Jamaica 9 Themes at MASP 9 Maps and Margins Mapas e Margens Daily Life Vida Cotidiana Celebrations and Religions Festas e Religioes Portraits Retratos Routes and Trances Africa Jamaica Bahia Rotas e Transes Africa Jamaica Bahia African Atlantic Modernisms Modernismos Afro Atlanticos Themes at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake 9 Emancipations Emancipacoes Activism and Resistance Ativismos e Resistencias Adapted exhibition themes Edit The American tour of Afro Atlantic Histories featured six of the eight themes from the original exhibition with several themes slightly modified 13 NGA curator Kanitra Fletcher said that while the changes to the exhibition contextualized it for North American audiences and included more works by African Americans we re not thinking of it as an African American show further noting a global Blackness present in both the original and adapted versions 14 Themes on U S tour and example works 13 Maps and Margins 15 James Phillips Description of a Slave Ship 1789 16 Frank Bowling Night Journey 1969 1970 17 Rosana Paulino The Permanence of Structures 2017 18 Jaime Lauriano Portuguese Stones 2 2017 Jose Alves de Olinda Slave Ship 2019 19 Hank Willis Thomas A Place to Call Home Africa America Reflection 2020 20 Enslavements and Emancipations 21 Samuel Raven Celebrating the Emancipation of Slaves in British Dominions August 1834 c 1834 22 Nathaniel Jocelyn Portrait of Cinque 1839 1840 23 John Quincy Adams Ward The Freedman 1862 1863 24 Thomas Satterwhite The Last Sale of Slaves in St Louis Missouri c 1880 25 Mel Edwards Palmares 1988 from the series Lynch Fragments Nona Faustine From her body sprang their greatest wealth 2013 from the series White Shoes 26 Arthur Jafa Ex Slave Gordon 2017 Everyday Lives 27 Frans Post Landscape with Anteater c 1660 28 Clementine Hunter Untitled c 1970 29 Barrington Watson Conversation 1981 30 Ad Junior Edu Carvalho and Spartakus Santiago Intervention in Rio How to Survive an Improper Approach 2018 31 Rites and Rhythms 32 Dirk Valkenburg Ritual Slave Party on Sugar Plantation in Surinam 1706 1708 33 Jose Montes de Oca attrib Saint Benedict of Palermo c 1734 34 Seneque Obin Carnaval c 1956 35 Rubem Valentim Composicao 12 Composition 12 1962 36 Clementine Hunter Black Jesus c 1985 37 Portraits 38 Don Miguel de Castro Emissary of Kongo c 1634 author unidentified 39 Edna Manley The Prophet 1935 Ben Enwonwu Boy c 1945 Elizabeth Catlett Reclining Female Nude 1955 Flavio Cerqueira Amnesia 2015 Zanele Muholi Ntozakhe II Parktown 2016 40 Dalton Paula Zeferina 2018 and Joao de Nascimiento 2018 41 Resistances and Activism 42 Victoria Santa Cruz They shouted black at me 1978 43 Faith Ringgold Who s Afraid of Aunt Jemima 1983 44 David Hammons African American Flag 1990 45 Theaster Gates In Case of Race Riot Break the Glass 2011 46 Daniel Lind Ramos Figura de Poder Power Figure 2016 2018 47 Artists EditThe first showing of Afro Atlantic Histories at MASP and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake included 450 works ranging from the 16th to 21st centuries by 214 artists 1 Artists in the original exhibition included Maxwell Alexandre Jose Alves de Olinda Sidney Amaral Benny Andrews Emanoel Araujo Thomas Jones Barker Agostinho Batista de Freitas John T Biggers Skunder Boghossian Luiz Braga Agostinho Brunias Flavio Cerqueira Timotheo da Costa Mario Cravo Jr Jean Baptiste Debret Beauford Delaney Mestre Didi Aaron Douglas David Driskell Augustus Earle Albert Eckhout Mel Edwards Ibrahim El Salahi Ben Enwonwu Nona Faustine Theodore Gericault Adenor Gondim Titus Kaphar Victor Patricio Landaluze Jaime Lauriano Ernest Mancoba Edna Manley David Miller Sr Marepe Paulo Nazareth Uche Okeke Moises Patricio Dalton Paula Rosana Paulino Frans Post Edouard Antoine Renard Faith Ringgold Glauber Rocha Vincent Rosenblatt Cameron Rowland Pascale Marthine Tayou Hank Willis Thomas Rubem Valentim Carlos Vegara Julien Vallou de Villeneuve Barrington Watson Osmond Watson Ellis Wilson and Lynette Yiadom Boakye 1 5 The adapted American tour featured over 130 works from the same time range The adapted version included a number of core works from the original showing along with newly included works from the NGA and MFAH s collections as well as several works from other North American museums 3 2 Artists with works new to the exhibition on the American tour include Ernest Crichlow Theaster Gates David Hammons Arthur Jafa Glenn Ligon Daniel Lind Ramos Zanele Muholi Faith Ringgold Alma Thomas Kara Walker and John Quincy Adams Ward 2 48 49 Reception EditWriting in The New York Times Holland Cotter called the original showing of Afro Atlantic Histories piece for piece one of the most enthralling shows I ve seen in years with one visual detonation after another further describing the exhibition as fundamentally about resistance and black sovereignty It s about change not chains 5 Hyperallergic listed the original showing as one of the 20 best exhibitions of 2018 outside the United States with critic Seph Rodney calling it breathtaking in ambition scope and display and hailing it as one of those few exhibitions that actually delivered what it said it would 50 ARTnews named the Sao Paulo showing the 3rd most important art exhibition of the 2010s 51 Following the opening of the American tour at the NGA Philip Kennicott wrote in The Washington Post that the mixture of artistic media amp time periods in the show makes for some stunning juxtapositions adding that the show has tremendous symbolic importance for the National Gallery due to its location in the NGA s West Building the wing of the museum traditionally devoted to canonical artworks that has long included very few Black artists 4 Describing the NGA exhibition in ARTnews Alex Greenberger wrote that though Afro Atlantic Histories features depictions of violence it also proposes that under the most dehumanizing circumstances Black people across the world found means of self possession 52 Writing for The Guardian about the NGA showing David Smith said the exhibition resists a grand narrative or definitive history but contains multitudes noting that the first and final works of the exhibition Hank Willis Thomas A Place to Call Home Africa America Reflection 2020 and David Hammons African American Flag 1990 respectively form powerful bookends 6 Writing in The New Yorker critic Julian Lucas called the NGA showing a powerful corrective to traditional historical narratives of slavery that do not include Afro Latino perspectives further noting that the show explores the creation of transnational unity by people of African descent Lucas also praised the juxtapositions of works in the show specifically the contrasts between Arthur Jafa s Ex Slave Gordon 2017 Eustaquio Neves Untitled 1995 and McPherson amp Oliver s The Scourged Back c 1863 between Sidney Amaral s Neck Leash Who Shall Speak on Our Behalf 2014 and Kara Walker s Restraint 2009 and between James Phillips Description of a slave ship 1789 Emanoel Araujo s The Ship 2007 Jose Alves de Olinda s Slave Ship 2019 and Rosana Paulino s The Permanence of Structures 2017 Writing about the Portraits section of the exhibition Lucas noted that works like Flavio Cerqueira s Amnesia 2015 and Samuel Fosso s Self Portrait as Liberated American Woman of the 70s 1997 represent contemporary challenges to the erasure of Blackness in the West 53 Critic Chase Quinn wrote in frieze that the NGA showing serves as a quiet rebuttal to representations of the Black experience that historically isolate Black history in the broader context of Western history Quinn hailed the exhibition as a benchmark for its message that non Black people are inherently intertwined with Black history 54 Writing in the conservative National Review Brian T Allen negatively reviewed the show s curatorial texts and time range calling them arbitrary jumping from one place to the next but praised the art included in the show 55 Gallery Edit Hank Willis Thomas A Place to Call Home Africa America Reflection 2020 McPherson amp Oliver The Scourged Back 1863 portrait of Gordon Arthur Jafa Ex Slave Gordon 2017 Emanoel 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