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Headlines Africa Jul 15, 2025

Abuja residents celebrate Igbo festival in grand style http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLwyxT #IgboFestival #AbujaFestival #NdiIgbo #CulturalCelebration #AfricanArts

Indigo Dec 16, 2022

Henry Taylor: B Side: (China Town Taylor) MOCA

ON VIEW NOV 6, 2022 – APR 30, 2023

MOCA Grand Avenue

Admission to Henry Taylor: B Side is free courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers.

https://www.moca.org/exhibition/henry-taylor

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Henry Taylor: B Side

Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art.

Indigo Dec 16, 2022

Exhibition: The Language of Beauty in African Art.

The Art Institute of Chicago

Nov 20, 2022–Feb 27, 2023

https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art

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The Language of Beauty in African Art | The Art Institute of Chicago

More than 250 sculptures from dozens of distinct cultures across the African continent come together in a celebration of these objects and the perspectives of the makers and communities who shaped, made, and used them.

The Art Institute of Chicago

Bookwormlit Dec 16, 2022

Cambridge University to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63973271

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Cambridge University to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

The Benin Bronzes were taken by British forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897.

BBC News

Indigo Dec 14, 2022

Choreographer and Performer Okwui Okpokwasili | 2018 MacArthur Fellow

"Okwui Okpokwasili is a choreographer and performer making visible the interior lives of women whose stories of resistance and resilience have been left out of dominant cultural narratives."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upZsXxy895c

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