The newly redesigned galleries for African art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) provide a model for what progressive curation can look like in a comprehensive museum. Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers has been the curator of African art at the MIA since 2008, and clearly he has been busy reshaping and reinvigorating how viewers there encounter the collection. In conjunction with the gallery reopening in November 2013, the MIA hosted a symposium of scholars to discuss the theme of “Mobility, Change, and Exchange in African Art” (see http://new.artsmia.org/event/symposium-mobility-change-exchange-in-african-art/). This and other recent events demonstrate the efforts of Grootaers and the MIA to deepen the engagement of their audience and bring broader awareness of problems of historiography and Eurocentric display methods to the public. Indeed, the major strength of the exhibit is how visitors are able to control what they explore through a variety of interactive media linked by flexible subthemes....

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