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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo\nEvent
  Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441359169/Crosscurrents_Art_o
 f_the_Southeastern_Congo\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-09-30\nEvent Date End: 20
 12-01-08\n\nInspired by the Museum's three finest works of African sculptu
 re\, &ldquo\;Crosscurrents&rdquo\; explores the art of three neighboring p
 eoples whose territories are located in the river systems of the southeast
 ern Congo. The Luba\, Songye\, and Hemba peoples have a long history of co
 ntact\, while maintaining differences in language\, social and political s
 ystems\, cultural memory\, and artistic expression. The exhibition is comp
 osed of works that are distinctive artistic representations of these peopl
 es\, and those that demonstrate a fluidity of cultural exchange and cross-
 influences.\n\nThe Museum's superb Luba ceremonial axe exemplifies the sty
 listic elegance of Luba art and the importance of the image of woman as th
 e source of political and religious authority. The ancestral figures of th
 e socially engaged art of the Hemba people share a similar elegance of for
 m but are primarily male figures. Songye art is marked by a more geometric
 al style and an emphasis on spiritual power. The Museum's male and female 
 prestige stools were first attributed to the hand of a Luba artist and are
  now identified as two of only fifteen such works known to have been produ
 ced by a Songye workshop near the intersection of Luba and Songye territor
 ies. This pair inspired the cross-cultural theme of the exhibition.\n\nLen
 ders to the exhibition include the National Museum of African Art\, Smiths
 onian Institution\; the Yale University Art Gallery\; the Mead Art Museum\
 , Amherst College\; and a number of private collectors. John Pemberton III
 \, Consulting Curator for African Art\, SCMA\, is the guest curator of &ld
 quo\;Crosscurrents&rdquo\; and the author of its accompanying catalogue. T
 he exhibition is supported\, in part\, by a grant from the National Endowm
 ent for the Arts\, the Maxine Weil Kunstadter\, class of 1924\, Fund\, and
  the Edith Stenhouse Bingham\, class of 1955\, Art Museum Fund. Additional
  support is provided by the Tryon Associates\, as well as the Publications
  and Research Fund of SCMA.\n\nImage credit: Unknown artist. African\, Lub
 a peoples. &ldquo\;Ceremonial axe.&rdquo\; 19th-20th centuries. Wood\, iro
 n. Smith College Museum of Art. Purchased with the Drayton Hillyer Fund. P
 hotograph by Petegorsky/Gipe\n\nStart time: Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM&ndash\;
 4 PM\; Sundays 12&ndash\;4 PM\; Second Fridays 10 AM&ndash\;8 PM\; Closed 
 Mondays and major holidays.
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SUMMARY:Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo
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