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African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ages: All Address: 1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 New York, NY www.metmuseum.org Description: This exhibition highlights the specific African artifacts acquired by the New York avant-garde and its most influential patrons during the 1910s and 1920s. Reflecting on the dynamism of New York's art scene during the years that followed the 1913 Armory Show, the exhibition brings together African works from the collections of many key individuals of the period such as Alfred Stieglitz, Marius de Zayas, John Quinn, Louise and Walter Arensberg, Alain LeRoy Locke, and Eugene and Agnes Meyer. |