U-M exhibition challenges traditional understanding of African arts and cultures
(Artdaily.org)

More than ever in the age of globalization, ideas fluidly cross geographic, generational, and cultural boundaries. `Beyond Borders: Global Africa,` an exhibition that will open at the University of Michigan Museum of Art this month, seizes this moment by repositioning Africa and its artists at the center of complex cross-cultural exchange for centuries. Bringing together paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations created in Africa, Europe and the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries, the exhibition features approximately 40 works of art drawn from UMMA`s African art collection and from private and public holdings