Brooklyn Museum: ‘African Innovations’

This museum is doing some reshuffling on its first floor, and  as part of the revised floor plan, the African galleries, which once claimed a privileged spot next to the lobby, have been relocated a distance away and reduced in size. But the new display, “African Innovations,” is effective. It eliminates the graphic overkill of the former installation; sets out work with an easily graspable logic; and over all shows the African holdings to decent advantage. It would be pretty hard not to. The collection is spectacular, an institutional treasure.

—Text from: Holland Cotter

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/events/art/museums/brooklyn-museum-african-innovations-1124.html