Performance

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

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At MoMA, *Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination* looks at how artists have used portraiture to frame Africa in public life, from liberation politics to the pressures of diaspora and global media. The exhibition traces how images circulate—through studios, newspapers, and institutions—and how they shape who is seen as modern, credible, or governable. In New York’s museum landscape, it reads as a pointed reminder that portraiture is not neutral; it can function as a political argument.