African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers New York

27 Aug 2010 @ 2:45 PM

African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers New York

African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers

official site: http://smafathers.org/museum

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A Yoruba dance mask, with a mini-zoo on top, from Nigeria.

Ruby Washington/The New York Times

An installation view at the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers, in Tenafly, N.J., showing a 10-foot-high carved figure of Salif Keita, the 1960s Malian soccer hero.

There’s the National Museum of African Art in Washington. And the Museum for African Art in New York, reopening in a new Fifth Avenue home next spring. And there’s a third you’ve probably never heard of, the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers here.

This museum is small and unorthodox in its setting: a stained-glass-windowed hall attached to a Roman Catholic church. But it’s the real African deal, with a collection covering the continent, top to bottom, coast to coast, old to new.The Permanent Collection, Part I, remains on view for a year at the African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers, 23 Bliss ...

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Categories: United States Posted By: nordend
Last Edit: 27 Aug 2010 @ 02 45 PM

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