Walking Tour: Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 to Now at Met

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now (running November 17, 2024 through February 17, 2025) examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. This multi-sensory display includes nearly 200 works in a wide range of media covering roughly 150 years of artistic and cultural production, including the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Explore Black artists' use of ancient Egyptian imagery, Black scholars' contributions to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt. In collaboration with MetLiveArts, the exhibit includes a documentary history of Black performance art that incorporates ancient Egyptian themes as well as live performances on select days throughout the run.