{"id":7220,"date":"2015-09-29T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2015-09-29T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:47:33","slug":"kongo-power-and-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2015\/09\/29\/kongo-power-and-majesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kongo: Power and Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-3.36.14-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-3.36.14-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-29 at 3.36.14 PM\" width=\"744\" height=\"324\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7221 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-3.36.14-PM.png 744w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-3.36.14-PM-650x283.png 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Review by Cathy Corman, CGCM\u00a0Visiting Researcher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those interested in the history of African Christianity may want to consider making a trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art before January 3, 2016, to tour\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2015\/kongo\" target=\"_blank\">Kongo: Power &amp; Majesty<\/a><span>. \u00a0The exhibit focuses on the material culture of Central African peoples after contact with Portuguese Catholics in the late fifteenth century. \u00a0Curators have done a terrific job showcasing the ways master craftspeople wove tapestries and caps, incorporated crucifixes into indigenous forms, carved female power figures to increase fertility during population decimation, and crafted male power figures to safeguard villages struggling to survive. \u00a0It\u2019s well worth paying $7 for the audio guide, which weaves together interesting background information and curators\u2019 interesting analyses. The Met is also featuring two relevant photographic exhibits in its contemporary collection:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2015\/in-and-out-of-the-studio\" target=\"_blank\">In and\u00a0Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa<\/a><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2015\/jo-ractliffe\" target=\"_blank\">The Aftermath of Conflict: Jo Ratcliffe\u2019s Photographs of Angola and South Africa<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review by Cathy Corman, CGCM\u00a0Visiting Researcher Those interested in the history of African Christianity may want to consider making a trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art before January 3, 2016, to tour\u00a0Kongo: Power &amp; Majesty. \u00a0The exhibit focuses on the material culture of Central African peoples after contact with Portuguese Catholics in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1994,1992,2061,2000,2037,2086],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}