These are images of objects and exhibitions that have interested me over the past decade. I update this page regularly. Click on the image to enlarge and on the caption to learn more about the object or museum where it resides.
all photos by Risham Majeed
Kentridge, Royal Academy, London “Starving Buddha” Lahore Museum Chess Set, Burkina Faso, British Museum Chest I liked at TEFAF Mother and child, Kongo culture, 19th century Museum of Comparative Sculpture, Paris “Suger Chalice,” National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Northwest Coast Hall, AMNH Jenne-Jeno sculpture, Sotheby’s (Breuer) Kara Walker “Unmanned Drone” in Monuments , L.A. Monuments Monuments Animal Flask, Syria, 7th-8th century, The Met Adrien Dauzats, The Great Pyramid, (1830) The Met Dogon culture, Shutter w/breasts, 19th century, The Met El Anatsui, PMA Rashid Johnson, Guggenheim, N.Y. Toyin Odutola, Jack Shainman, N.Y. Toyin Odutola, Jack Shainman, N.Y. Amy Sherald, Whitney, N.Y. Klimt, Portrait of William Nii Nortey Dowuona John Singer Sargent, Smoke of Ambergris , (1880), The Clark Nick Cave, Jack Shainman, N.Y. Hashim, Malik Ambar (1625-30), V&A, London Jehangir shooting the head of Malik Ambar, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin “Helgö Buddha” Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, Marfa Petrit Halilaj, The Met
Quran, West Africa, 19th century Osman Bey, Young woman reading , 1880 “Art of Noise” Sargent, Mosquito Nets , 1908 Female Polo Player, 618-907, China Paa Joe, Model T “coffin,”, 2018 N’kisi n’kondi (Mangaaka), 19th-early 20th century, D.I.A. Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Mai, 1776 Tang Dynasty, Camel Gardner Museum, Boston “Heavenly Bodies” at the The Met Cloisters Tomb effigy of a knight of the d’Aluye family, 13th century (detail of his sword believed to be of Chinese origin)
Baga, 19th century, Yale University Art Gallery Kongo, Mother and Child Power Figure, 19th century, Yale Dürer, Vienna Master of Bouaflé, Yale Beinecke Library, Yale Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Dürer, Vienna Cennini, Salt Cellar, Vienna Vaults, Stefansdom, 14th century, Vienna Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Palazzo Fortuny, Venice Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (Tuareg shield in background) Martin Puryear, A Column for Sally Hemings , American Pavillion, Venice Biennale (2019) Carol Bove, Venice Biennale (2019) Henry Taylor (2016) at Venice Biennale (2019) Ghana Freedom at Venice Biennale (2019), Yiadom-Boakye Ghana Freedom at Venice Biennale (2019), El Anatsui Art Gallery of Ontario, African Art Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, African Art Collection Igbo-Ukwu, 9th century, Nigeria Kara Walker, Fons Americanus , Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Museum of Comparative Sculpture, Paris Musée de Cluny, Paris Musée du Quai Branly, Paris Musée du Quai Branly, Paris Glenn Ligon and Nick Cave in Philly Lorna Simpson in Philly
