This free program inaugurates the exhibition The Language of Beauty in African Art. Priority admission reserved for Kimbell members who present a current membership card at least thirty minutes before the program begins. Auditorium doors will open one hour prior to the commencement of the program.
Visions of Virtue: The Aesthetics of African Art
Constantine Petridis, chair and curator of Arts of Africa, The Art Institute of Chicago
Ìwà Àti Ewà: The Concept of Beauty among the Yòrùbá of West Africa
Babatunde Lawal, professor of African, African American, and African Diaspora Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Not All Beauty Is Divine: Masking, Nature, and Nurture on the Coast of Guinea and Sierra Leone
Frederick John Lamp, retired curator of African Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and lecturer in theater studies and the history of art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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