… recognized artist Yinka Shonibare explores how ideas of citizenship, home, and nationalism hold complex meanings.    This exhibition creates a library setting where the shelves are filled with … and The African Library .   About the Artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962) in London, UK, studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1989) and received his MFA from Goldsmiths, … Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; and VandenBroek Foundation, the Netherlands.   Curatorial Acknowledgments The American Library was originally …

… beloved traditional song, "Had Gadya," sung around the world for centuries at the Jewish holiday of Passover. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a striking series of twelve large prints … is beaten by a stick and so on. Each subsequent verse builds on the story, with aggressors becoming victims themselves; finally, the cycle is broken with God’s intervention. The song has … made major contributions to the art movements of Suprematism and Constructivism. Lissitzky studied art from a young age under Yehuda Pen, who also taught Marc Chagall, and studied …