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Celebrating Black History Month (33)

African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Messinger, Lisa Mintz, Lisa Gail Collins, and Rachel Mustalish

(2003)

African Ivories

Ezra, Kate

(1984)

The African Origin of Civilization: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.79, no. 4 (Spring, 2022)

Patch, Diana Craig and Alisa LaGamma

(2022)

Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination

LaGamma, Alisa, with an essay by John Pemberton III

(2000)

"Art and Politics: A Staff from the Court of Benin, West Africa": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 13 (1978)

Vogel, Susan Mullin

(1978)

"The Art of Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 39, no. 2 (Fall, 1981)

Newton, Douglas

(1981)

The Art of Central Africa: Masterpieces from the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde

Koloss, Hans-Joachim, with contributions by David Binkley, Arthur Bourgeois, Kathy Curnow, Kate Ezra, Dunja Hersak, Hans-Joachim Koloss, Wyatt MacGaffey, Polly Nooter, and Enid Schildkrout

(1990)

Art of the Dogon: Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection

Ezra, Kate

(1988)

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.79, no. 3 (Winter, 2022)

Alteveer, Ian, Hannah Beachler, and Sarah Lawrence, Introduction, with an essay by Michelle D. Commander and a graphic novella by John Jennings

(2022)

Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture

LaGamma, Alisa

(2004)

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End

LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini

(2008)

Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary

LaGamma, Alisa, ed., with contributions by Barbara Boehm, Elias K. Bongmba, Kairn Klieman, Alisa LaGamma, Denise Patry Leidy, and Louis Perrois

(2007)