The most exciting exhibit I’ve seen this year is at¬†MoAD, Museum of the African Diaspora.¬†Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold¬†will run through August 11.¬† ¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† Though I approach anything subtitled ‚ÄúA Post-Colonial Paradox‚Äù gingerly, in this case I should have let my guard down. It‚Äôs not doctrinaire, not a visual polemic ‚Äî the show is filled… Continue reading MoAD: Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold
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Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
For years,¬†MoAD,¬†San Francisco‚Äôs Museum of the African Diaspora, languished. Opened with much fanfare in 2005, it was pretty much static until late 2013. In 2013, Linda Harris, a human dynamo from Chicago, took over the reins. Since then, the museum, which sits between SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and CMJ (Contemporary Jewish Museum),… Continue reading Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)