I moved on from my position as curatorial assistant for the arts of africa, the pacific islands, asia, and the islamic world at the Brooklyn Museum this past April. I was glad to have done some brief writing via tumblr while there.
Drawing upon the theme of close-looking explicit in the curator’s conception of Double Take: African Innovations, this post invited viewers to consider unexpected asymmetrical design in Kuba Palm Wine Cups and to make visual connections with similar designs on raffia textiles also on view: http://tmblr.co/ZmSHOy1XFaEj8
This post ask
ed viewers to consider close-looking with multiple senses using aso-oke cloth from southwest Nigeria on view in an installation of touch-cloth: http://tmblr.co/ZmSHOy1ZyoIFg
Roger D. Arnold 