National Museum of African Art: exhibit featuring Yinka Shonibare

The Museum of African art has been there for years but I never step foot into this beautiful building until last sunday. The museum is connected underground with the National Asian art museum both look like little gate houses but there are stairs that lead you under the garden into large galleries and corridors with classrooms. This exhibit was a change from the normal art exhibits that usually come to DC. photography and ballet dancers adorn the open theathers. there is an adult only section if you want to see artistic sexual poses in Yinka's garbs which is wildly colorful. the figures are all posed and in act of what colonial whites would have looked like but with a twist of these colorful african garments. stare at the exhibts read into them. make you wonder if the world would have been backwards like he wanted us to think from the exhibit. hurry up this is only in town until March 7, 2010