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 ass-forms/art-lectures.html\n\nScholars today recognize Africa as the sour
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 heikh Anta Diop shocked and challenged historians by asserting the influen
 ce of ancient African civilizations in his groundbreaking book The African
  Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. This exhibition pays homage to D
 iop by presenting masterpieces from the Museum’s collections from west and
  central Africa alongside art from ancient Egypt for the first time in The
  Met’s history.\n\nThrough twenty-one pairings of works from different Afr
 ican cultures and eras\, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to ap
 preciate the extraordinary creativity of the continent across five millenn
 ia\, revealing unexpected parallels and contrasts. Although there was no c
 ontact between their creators\, the works share deep and underrecognized h
 istories.
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DESCRIPTION:Register Here if you will attend online - https://rssny.org/cla
 ss-forms/art-lectures.html\n\nScholars today recognize Africa as the sourc
 e of our common ancestry. But in 1974\, Senegalese scholar and humanist Ch
 eikh Anta Diop shocked and challenged historians by asserting the influenc
 e of ancient African civilizations in his groundbreaking book The African 
 Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality. This exhibition pays homage to Di
 op by presenting masterpieces from the Museum’s collections from west and 
 central Africa alongside art from ancient Egypt for the first time in The 
 Met’s history.\n\nThrough twenty-one pairings of works from different Afri
 can cultures and eras\, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to app
 reciate the extraordinary creativity of the continent across five millenni
 a\, revealing unexpected parallels and contrasts. Although there was no co
 ntact between their creators\, the works share deep and underrecognized hi
 stories.
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