WHEN:
November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025
WHERE:
The Met Fifth Avenue
The Tisch Galleries
Gallery 899 Floor 2
New York, NY 10028
For more information and tickets visit the Met website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual, sculptural, literary, musical, scientific, scholarly, religious, political, and performative pursuits. The multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production will feature nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media from The Met collection and public and private collections, including critical international loans from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe. Thematic sections will trace how Black artists and other agents of culture have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity, the contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt…"
