Max Hollein is the Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Creative Dynamism of the Sahel

Hand, Bura-Asinda-Sikka, Niger, 3rd–11th century, Terracotta Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger (AC3 BRK 85). © Photo Maurice Ascani. www.photographe-niger.com.
Installation view of the exhibition "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara". © The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2020, photography by Anna-Marie Kellen.
Noted Senegalese singer Baaba Maal (right), who performed at the Metropolitan Museum’s Sahel exhibition, meets United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Melissa Fleming (left). New York, 11 March 2020. Photo: Steven Bornholtz.
Mother and Child (Detail), Bamana peoples, Mali, 15th–early 20th century. Wood Private collection. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Peter Zeray.
Max Hollein

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, examines—indeed celebrates—an important and relatively unfamiliar artistic legacy.

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