Fowler Museum at UCLA

Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis explores the unique cultural role of the city of Salvador, the coastal capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, and one of the oldest cities in the Americas. In the 1940s, Salvador emerged as an internationally renowned center of Afro- Brazilian culture, and it remains to this day an important hub of African- inspired artistic practices in Latin America. The Fowler will present the most comprehensive exhibition in the U.S.to date of the African-inspired arts of Bahia, featuring the work of well-known modernists such as Pierre Verger a...