New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations

Larry Bell, Triolith (Poppy/Hibiscus) A, 2020. Laminated glass coated with Iconel, 12 x 24 x 12 in. Larry Bell Studio, Courtesy of the Sarlo Collection.

Maa Laxmi, From the Darshan Series, 2011, Manjari Sharma (b. Mumbai, India, lives and works in California), Archival inkjet print in brass-embossed frame, Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Museum purchase, 2020.48.2a-b, Photography credit: Manjari Sharma, © Manjari Sharma

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Private Landscapes and Public Territories, 1998-2011/2018; mixed media installation including painted and mirrored armoire, found objects, moss, dried flowers, faux topiaries, family photographs, miniature jeweled trees, painted wooden hedges; 120 x 240 x 300 in.; courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Photo: Michael Karibian. 

Shibata Zeshin, Japanese, 1807-1891, Still Life with Vegetables, 19th century, Colored lacquer and gold leaf on paper, 7 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (18.1 × 27 cm), On loan from The Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection, L.2009.10.3 

Yreina D. Cervántez, American, born 1952 and Leo Limón, American, born 1952, Estrella of the Dawn, 1988, Screen print, Image: 15 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (40.3 × 55.6 cm); Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 91.62.7, © Yreina D. Cervántez and Leo Limón

teamLab, The World of Irreversible Change, 2022, Interactive Digital Work, 6 channels, Endless, Sound: teamLab © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Southern German, from the area of Augsburg, Close Helmet for the Foot Tourney, about 1590, steel (formerly blued) with etching and gilding, and brass, 31.8 × 22.9 × 34.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 × 13 1/2 in.), 11 lb., 15 oz (weight), The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.1113. Image © 2021 Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.

Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz, American, born Puerto Rico, 1955-2023, Yemayá, 1993, Oil on canvas, 84 × 68 in. (213.4 × 172.7 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with The Brown Foundation Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2023.1, © Estate of Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz, Image courtesy of Presa House Gallery 

Allan Rohan Crite (American, 1910–2007), Play at Dark, 1935, oil on canvas board. Courtesy of the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.