Exhibition – Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists 1876 To Now

Covers of The Crisis 3, no. 3, John Henry Adams Jr.  American, Ink on paper

Covers of The Crisis 3, no. 3

John Henry Adams Jr.

January 1912

Ink on paper

Exhibition At The MET – Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists 1876 To Now.

Slim and Sphinx, Slim Aarons  American, Chromogenic print

Slim and Sphinx

Slim Aarons
1964, printed 2024

ABOUT EXHIBITION 

A series of nefertiti busts transitions from historical to contemporary styles, symbolizing the evolution of art influenced by ancient egypt from 1876 to the present, titled "flight into egypt and ancient artists.

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now 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.

 

Daughters of Isis Gloves, Nylon

Daughters of Isis Gloves

2024
Muhammad Ali at Giza, Inkjet print

Muhammad Ali at Giza

1966, printed 2024
The Ascent of Ethiopia, Loïs Mailou Jones  American, Oil on canvas

The Ascent of Ethiopia

Loïs Mailou Jones
1932
Remember the Time, Michael Jackson  American, Video, color, sound, 2 min., 4 sec. (excerpts)

Remember the Time

Michael Jackson
1991
Queen, Nicki Minaj  Trinidadian, Record

Queen

Nicki Minaj

2018
A Divine Mother (after Charles Dickson), EJ Hill  American, Inkjet print

A Divine Mother (after Charles Dickson)

EJ Hill
2018
Space Is the Place, John Coney, Video, sound, color, 5 min., 43 sec. (excerpts)

Space Is the Place

John Coney
Sun Ra
Joshua Smith
1974

Find these and much more at the ‘Flight Into Egypt’ exhibit HERE

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

Through February 17, 2025

Now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

Address

1000 Fifth Avenue

82nd Street

New York, NY, 10028
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