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Alisa LaGamma
Alisa LaGamma is the Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1995 for a dissertation titled "The Art of the Punu Mukudj Masquerade: Portrait of an Equatorial Society", for which she carried out a year of fieldwork in southern Gabon.
In 1998, she was a guest editor for "African Arts" journal.
In 2012, she received the Iris Award for Outstanding Scholarship of the Bard Graduate Center in recognition of her contribution to rethinking the history of sub-Saharan African art and culture.
She curated the exhibition "Kongo: Power and Majesty". Provided by Wikipedia
The African origin of civilization
: This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition The African Origin of Civilization, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 14, 2021 Réimpression de : "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin", vol. 79, n° 4 (Spring, 2022) : 46 ill. en noir et en coul., portr. 28 : 9781588397508