An invitation for KMA Members (Curator's Circle and above) to view the Museum's spring exhibitions, There Is A Body: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts in the 21st Century and Stellar Reverberations: African Masks in Outer Space.
We are excited to invite you to the First Look preview of the KMA's Spring exhibition, There Is A Body: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts in the 21st Century. Join us for some light refreshments, get an exclusive look at the new exhibition, and relax in the Marilyn M. Simpson Sculpture Garden.
There Is A Body: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts in the 21st Century
In the main galleries
Guest curated by artist John Edmonds and organized by the KMA, the exhibition highlights an intergenerational group of contemporary artists from the Black diaspora—David O. Alekhuogie, Sanford Biggers, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Matthew Angelo Harrison— who are forging personal connections to traditional African art and interrogating its appropriation by the western art canon.
This exhibition was realized with generous support provided by the Director’s Circle of the Katonah Museum of Art: Mike Davies, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Vida Foubister, Nisa Geller, Virginia L. Gold, Linda Nordberg, Amy Parsons, Yvonne S. Pollack, Rochelle C. Rosenberg, Rebecca Samberg, and Richard and Audrey Zinman.
Image Credit: Sanford Biggers. The Soothsayer, 2019-23. White marble on custom cedar plinth. Marble: 33 1/4 x 27 1/4 x 21 in. (84.5 x 69.2 x 53.3 cm) Plinth: 16 1/2 x 38 3/8 x 33 in. (41.9 x 97.5 x 83.8 cm) Overall: 49 3/4 x 38 1/2 x 33 in. (126.4 x 97.8 x 83.8 cm) Unique within a series. Photo: Lance Brewer. © Sanford Biggers. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.