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Contributions by Ian Alteveer, Kelly Baum, Kim Benzel, Deniz Beyazit, Monika Bincsik, Yaëlle Biro, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T. Carpenter, Henry Colburn, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Maryam Ekhtiar, Douglas S. Eklund, Alyce Perry Englund, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Amanda B. Garfinkel, Medill Higgins Harvey, Ruth Bigelow, Alison Hokanson, Mellissa J. Huber, Shanay Jhaveri, Ronda Kasl, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Brinda Kumar, Donald J. La Rocca, Alisa LaGamma, Constance McPhee, Asher E. Miller, Elyse Nelson, Maia Nuku, Stephen C. Pinson, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Jessica Regan, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Femke Speelberg, Adrienne Spinozzi, Perrin Stein, Courtney A. Stewart, E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Sheena Wagstaff, Sylvia Yount. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2018–2020: Part II: Late Eighteenth Century to Contemporary: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.78, no. 4 (Spring, 2021). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.

Ainsworth, Maryan W., Denise Allen, Stijn Alsteens, Ian Alteveer, Joan Aruz, Peter Barnet, Andrea J. Bayer, Peter J. Bell, Deniz Beyazit, Monika Bincsik, Yaëlle Biro, Barbara D. Boehm, Andrew Bolton, Sheila R. Canby, Iria Candela, John T. Carpenter, Elizabeth Cleland, Jayson Kerr Dobney, James A. Doyle, Maryam Ekhtiar, Douglas S. Eklund, Alyce Englund, Helen C. Evans, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Amanda Garfinkel, Sarah B. Graff, Randall Griffey, John Guy, Navina Najat Haidar, Seán Hemingway, Marsha Hill, Alison R. Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Mellissa J. Huber, Timothy B. Husband, Kyriaki Karoglou, Ronda Kasl, Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. La Rocca, Christian Larsen, Soyoung Lee, Denise Patry Leidy, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Charles T. Little, Mark P. McDonald, Constance McPhee, Joan R. Mertens, J. Kenneth Moore, Jeffrey Munger, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Carlos A. Picón, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen C. Pinson, Jessica Regan, Sabine Rewald, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Martina Rugiadi, Beth Saunders, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Pierre Terjanian, Thayer Tolles, Sheena Wagstaff, Stephan S. Wolohojian, and Sylvia Yount. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2014–2016: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.74, no. 2 (Fall, 2016). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. See more

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Arabic). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014.

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (German). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. See more

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Russian). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. See more

Campbell, Thomas P. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (Korean). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. See more

Chow, Fong, Robert Goldwater, and Alexandrine St. Claire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 9 (May, 1969). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969. See more

Ezra, Kate. Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. See more

Ezra, Kate. Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. See more

Galitz, Kathryn Calley. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 2016 See more

Hollein, Max. Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, 2020 See more

LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. See more

LaGamma, Alisa, with contributions by Yaëlle Biro, Mamadou Cissé, David C. Conrad, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Roderick McIntosh, Paulo F. de Moraes Farias, Giulia Paoletti, and Ibrahima Thiaw. Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. See more

Paoletti, Giulia and Yaëlle Biro."Photographic Portraiture in West Africa: Notes from 'In and Out of the Studio'": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 51 (2016). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. See more

Ross, Doran H. "The Heraldic Lion in Akan Art: A Study of Motif Assimilation in Southern Ghana." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 16 (1981). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. See more

Vogel, Susan Mullin. "Art and Politics: A Staff from the Court of Benin, West Africa." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 13 (1978). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. See more

Watts, Edith W. A Masterwork of African Art: The Dogon Couple. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.

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"African Lost-Wax Casting: Bronze, Copper, and Brass." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

"African Lost-Wax Casting: The Tada Figure." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

"African Rock Art of the Northern Zone." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

"Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

"Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Apley, Alice. "African Lost-Wax Casting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Biro, Yaëlle. "Bundle of Emotions." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Art of the Asante Kingdom." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Asante Royal Funerary Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Asante Textile Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Gold in Asante Courtly Arts." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Origins and Empire: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Political African Women of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "The Bamana Ségou State." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Bortolot, Alexander Ives. "Ways of Recording African History." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C.–?)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife (from ca. 6th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Inland Niger Delta." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Fulani/Fulbe People ." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. "Prime of Life." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

Paoletti, Giulia "Early Histories of Photography in West Africa (1860–1910) ." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Ross, Emma George. "African Christianity in Kongo." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Ross, Emma George. "Afro-Portuguese Ivories." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Ross, Emma George. "Benin Chronology." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

Ross, Emma George. "The Age of Iron in West Africa." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

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Alisa LaGamma

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Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2018–2018. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York, November 2018. See more

Contributions by Andrea M. Achi, Denise Allen, Niv Allon, Ian Alteveer, Carmen C. Bambach, Kelly Baum, Alexis Belis, Monika Bincsik, John Byck, Iria Candela, John T. Carpenter, Stephanie D’Alessandro, Clare Davies, Jayson Kerr Dobney, Ashley Dunn, Adam Eaker, Maryam Ekhtiar, Helen C. Evans, Jennifer Farrell, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Amanda B. Garfinkel, John Guy, Navina Haidar, Medill Higgins Harvey, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Mellissa J. Huber, Eleanor S. Hyun, Shanay Jhaveri, Ronda Kasl, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Sarah Lepinski, Pengliang Lu, Virginia McBride, Constance McPhee, Asher E. Miller, Iris Moon, Laura Filloy Nadal, Patricia M. Norby, Adela Oppenheim, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Jenny Peruski, Joanne Pillsbury, Stephen C. Pinson, David Pullins, Jessica Regan, Aaron Rio, Imani Roach, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Aude Semat, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, Isabel Stünkel, Zhixin Jason Sun, Pierre Terjanian, Abraham Thomas, Thayer Tolles, Stephan Wolohojian. Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 2020–2022, v.80, no. 2 (Fall, 2022). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.

Adlin, Jane, Stijn Alsteens, Ian Alteveer, Katharine B. Baetjer, Carmen C. Bambach, Peter Barnet, Andrea J. Bayer, Kurt Behrendt, Yaëlle Biro, Barbara D. Boehm, Andrew Bolton, John T. Carpenter, Keith Christiansen, Nicholas Cullinan, Malcolm Daniel, Jayson Kerr Dobney, James David Draper, Maryam Ekhtiar, Douglas S. Eklund, Helen C Evans, Mia Fineman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Christine Giuntini, Sarah B. Graff, Randall Griffey, John Guy, Navina Najat Haidar, Se´n Hemingway, Marsha Hill, Alison Hokanson, Melanie Holcomb, Timothy B. Husband, Kyriaki Karoglou, Peter M. Kenny, Eric Kjellgren, Harold Koda, Wolfram Koeppe, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. La Rocca, Soyoung Lee, Denise Patry Leidy, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Charles T. Little, Shi-yee Liu, Constance McPhee, Joan R. Mertens, Asher Ethan Miller, J. Kenneth Moore, Jeffrey Munger, Nadine M. Orenstein, Judith Ostrowitz, Diana Craig Patch, Amelia Peck, Carlos A. Picón, Joanne Pillsbury, Marla Prather, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Rebecca A. Rabinow, Jan Glier Reeder, Jessica Regan, Sabine Rewald, Samantha J. Rippner, Catharine H. Roehrig, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Martina Rugiadi, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Femke Speelberg, Perrin Stein, E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Luke Syson, Pierre Terjanian, Thayer Tolles, Melinda Watt, and Beth Carver Wees. Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2012–2014 . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2014. See more

Alisa LaGamma, Joanne Pillsbury, Eric Kjellgren, and Yaëa;lle Biro . The Nelson A. Rockefeller Vision Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. See more

D'Agostino, Paola, Ana Maria Falchetti, Mary Sprinson de Jesüs, Alisa LaGamma, Donald J. La Rocca, Eckhard Leuschner, Vivian B. Mann, Mary B. Moore, Christine I. Oaklander, Wendy Thompson, Andrew McDonald Watson, and James C. Y. Watt. Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, Vol. 43 (2008). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. See more

Houghton, James R., Katherine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picon, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter Liedtke, Colta Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm Daniel, Harold Koda, and John P. O'Neill. Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. See more

LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. See more

LaGamma, Alisa, ed., with contributions by Barbara Boehm, Elias K. Bongmba, Kairn Klieman, Alisa LaGamma, Denise Patry Leidy, and Louis Perrois. Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. See more

LaGamma, Alisa, with an essay by John Pemberton III. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. "The Recently Acquired Kongo Mangaaka Power Figure." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 43 (2008). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. See more

Patch, Diana Craig and Alisa LaGamma. The African Origin of Civilization: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.79, no. 4 (Spring, 2022). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022. See more

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Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. "Ife (from ca. 6th century)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. "Africa." Connections. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. "Ethiopia's Enduring Cultural Heritage." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more

LaGamma, Alisa. "Prime of Life." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more

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