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Ruth Leon recommends…Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt

Ruth Leon recommends…Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt

Flight into Egypt 

Akili Tommasino, Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Met Museum in New York, artist Julie Mehretu, and artist Fred Wilson, take us on a virtual tour of the new exhibition, Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, which examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance.

In a multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production—from the 19th century to the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the present day—the exhibition includes nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media.

​Thematic sections featuring works from The Met collection and international loans from public and private collections trace subjects including 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.

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