Most probably you are referring to the Art/Artifact exhibition, where
african art is exhibited in simulations of several different museum
environment.
As a start, see Steven D. Lavine's "Museums, Multiculturalism" in Museum
News, March/April 1989  p. 42.
There are several other articles dealing with this exhibition. If
interested , e-mail me off-list.
Klara

At 11:39 AM 11/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>There was an exhibition several years ago here in NYC at the Museum for
>African Art which dealt specifically with this theme.  It was one of the
>better exhibits I have seen.  I think it was called "Exhibitionism."
>
>Laura
>
>>hi all-
>>
>>i am trying to remember an article from several years ago, and am having
>>no luck-can anyone help?  it was about museum exhibitions, and it dealt,
>>at least in part, with an exhibition in which african objects were
>>displayed in various ways - in one room, they were shown as if in a
>>mussum, with vitrines and cards and in oanother room, they were shown more
>>as if related to actual culture.  i can't even completely remember the
>>different ways they were exhibited-does this ring a bell for anyone?  many
>>thanks, in hopeful advance, meryl zwanger
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