A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art
A Concrete Vision: Oshogbo Art from the 1960s is a very nice exhibit of art from the Nigerian town of Oshogbo, on display now at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. The artists involved with the movement found some exciting ways to merge community-building, religion, topography and art, and it's well worth reading about. I noted some ties between the Nigerian artists and other 20th-century artistic phenomena, including the work of Jean Dubuffet, American folk art, and Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, which reminds me of the Oshun shrine.