The Biggest Surprise at the Met’s Egypt Show? Live Performance – Africa.com
“Flight to Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt – 1876 – Present,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, is an effort by black American artists to connect with a history that is often obscured. For centuries, archaeologists, historians and curators have portrayed Egypt as Mediterranean rather than African, and diaspora artists are working to clarify the story.
