‘The Language of Beauty in African Art’ at the Art Institute is ambitious — though far from perfect – Chicago Tribune
Feb 2023
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[ad_1] There’s a thesaurus worth of terms I could use to describe the nearly 300 sculptures included in “The Language of Beauty in African Art,” the Art Institute’s first exhibition of traditional African arts in over a decade. My choice of words, though, will be predicated on the ideas of beauty and ugliness that I have absorbed over the years as an adult female resident of the north side of Chicago, as a scholar of Western and Japanese art history, as a reader of Victorian novels, as an Ashkenazi Jewish kid growing up in the 1980s in an Anglophone suburb...... 