Heroes Live On: Episode 4

Heroes Live On: Join curator Kevin D. Dumouchelle on a 7-part video tour of the exhibition Heroes: Principles of African Greatness, exploring artworks from the National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection that tell the story of key heroic principles and personages in Africa’s arts and history.
 
 
[Part 4] Our Ancestors Lived Free: In the stillness of this simulated grove, it is hoped, the ancestors’ voices might ring clear. Shrines, groves, or other sacred locations in which communing with the spirits of ancestors is enhanced are part of the cultural and religious traditions that many of the artists in this section share. As the only section in Heroes to focus exclusively on Africa’s historical art genres, this space offers a moment for concentrated reflection on the principles and heroes modeled by generations past. These ideas, nevertheless, also extend right up to the present.

Видео Heroes Live On: Episode 4 канала Smithsonian National Museum of African Art