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EXHIBITIONS
- 2004
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PRESIDENT: THE ART AND LEGACY OF FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI
9th September – 24th October 2004
The Curve, Level 0, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London
EC2
Admission: FREE
Open daily 11am-8pm
Late openings 11am- 9:30pm on 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 October (Coinciding
with music events)
Black
President is a group exhibition exploring the impact of Kuti’s
life and work on over 40 works from 34 international contemporary
artists, including Turner Prize nominee Yinka Shonibare. All of
the artists have been inspired by the musician’s charismatic
and complex personality – as political dissident, unabashed
sex symbol, utopian visionary and musical pioneer.
Info:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/felakuti/exhibition.htm
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BLACK
BRITISH STYLE
7 October 2004 - 16 January 2005
Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7
Admission:
Full £6. Concs. £4. Full time students and 12-17 year
olds £3.
(Other ticket offers are available)
Open daily 10am-5.45pm
Late openings 10am – 10pm Wednesdays and the last Friday of
the month, excluding December (Selected galleries remain open after
17.45)
The
style of black people in Britain has had a profound affect on this
country’s cultural diversity. In turn the black population
has drawn on a range of influences and countries to express their
own cultural identity. Black British Style will explore clothes
and the bodies that wear them, looking at what makes this style
so significant. Showing garments worn by 'style leaders' as well
as 'real people', the exhibition will focus on fashion but also
incorporate music, photography and film.
Tel:
+44 (0)207 942 2000
Info:http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1341_black_
british_style/ visitor_information/visitor_information.php
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SUDAN:
PAST & PRESENT
9TH September 2004 – 9th January 2005
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
Admission: FREE
Open Saturday – Wednesday 10am - 5.30pm, Thursday – Friday
10am - 8.30pm
In recent months,
the eyes of the world have been on Sudan. It has never been more
important to understand the different civilisations and the complex
history of this, the largest country in Africa, for millennia the
point of contact between central Africa and the Mediterranean world.
The British
Museum has had a long engagement in Sudan. A hundred years ago it
played a part in the foundation of Sudan’s first museum. More
recently it has been working with Sudanese and international teams
to plan vital rescue archaeology before the damming of the fourth
Nile Cataract and the subsequent flooding in 2008. The Sudanese
collection in the galleries of the British Museum is among the most
important and comprehensive outside Africa. It is a collection that
allows many insights into the country’s diversity of people
and culture.
To mark its
long-term relationship with Sudan, the British Museum has planned
a series of exhibitions, gallery highlights and events that explore
Sudan’s past and present. Stunning ancient artefacts, fascinating
material culture
and the challenging work of contemporary artists all help to
reveal the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Sudan.
Tel: +44 (0)207 323 8299
Info: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/sudan/
Link to exhibition booklet: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/sudan/pdf1.pdf
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AFRICAN
WORLDS
Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ
Admission FREE
Open daily 10.30am - 5.30pm.
The first permanent exhibition in Britain dedicated
to African art and culture,
African Worlds celebrates the continent's diversity, history and
creativity. It brings together a rich mixture of sculpture and decorative
arts explained through the voices of elders, maskers, drummers,
diviners, artists, exiles, curators and anthropologists. Objects
from across Africa are displayed from Egypt to Zimbabwe, and from
African related cultures including Brazil and Trinidad.
Highlights include masterpieces of the bronze casters art from Benin
which depict the arrival of the first Europeans to Africa, and the
spectacular Igbo Ijele, Africa's largest mask, and the only one
of its kind on display in Britain.
The Ijele sits alongside other impressive Dogon and Bwa masks from
Mali and Burkina Faso which themselves tower up to five metres high.
The gallery also features three religious altars from Benin, Haiti
and Brazil, which reveal an insight into non Western religious beliefs
and draw parallels between African societies.
One of the most popular displays is dedicated to Kemet (Ancient
Egypt) and showcases Egyptian mummies and other artefacts collected
by Frederick Horniman.
Tel:
+44 (0)208 699 1872
Info: http://www.horniman.ac.uk/exhibitions/current.cfm
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FUTURE
FACE
1 October 2004 – 13 February 2005
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
Admission FREE
Open daily 10am – 6pm
Future
Face asks questions about the human face and identity and considers
what faces might look like in the future. As digital faces become
as 'real' as live ones, and as even face transplants become a reality,
how will our notions of identity be affected? Drawing from the collections
of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, the Hollywood Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the British
Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Portrait
Gallery, the Wellcome Trust and the Science Museum, the exhibition
will feature over 200 historical and contemporary photographs, paintings,
multimedia installation and objects.
Tel:
+44 (0)870 870 4868
Info: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/futureface/
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UNTITLED:
MOHAMED CAMARA
2nd October – 21st November 2004
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Admission FREE
Open daily 10am – 6pm, Friday and Saturday until 10pm
Tate Modern’s untitled project is a series of exhibitions
in recent contemporary art that explore the relationship between
private and public space. The third in the series is devoted to
the photographic works of Malian artist Mohamed Camara. This is
not only Camara’s first exhibition in Britain but also his
first in a public gallery. It comprises 43 works from his first
series Chambres Maliennes (Malian rooms), as well as 20 new photographs
and a video, which have been especially made for the show.
Tel:
+44 (0)207 887 8000
Info: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/untitled/camara/
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