Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/27/2019
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Fowler Museum at UCLA
308 Charles E. Young Dr. N
Westwood, CA,
Free.
noon-8 p.m. Wed., noon-5 p.m. Thu.-Sun. Sept. 8-May 31. This exhibit features 38 objects from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924–1925 that was staged outside of London to showcase Britain’s wealth and supremacy (as well as to stimulate trade with and among its various colonies). The works now on view at the Fowler were originally displayed in the Exhibition’s Nigerian Pavilion, which was part of “The Walled City” pavilions that were among its most popular attractions. Among the key objects found now in the Fowler show is a model of a royal altar from the Kingdom of Benin; ritual and prestige objects made by Yoruba, Igbo, Fulani, and Kanuri artists; and the doors to living quarters of African artists brought to demonstrate their skills to the Exhibition visitors. This glimpse back to a nearly 100-year-old exhibition offers intriguing insights into the British colonial enterprise.
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