{"id":8320,"date":"2019-08-20T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:32:09","slug":"zanele-muholi-and-morgan-mahape-in-african-spirits-at-yossi-milo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/zanele-muholi-and-morgan-mahape-in-african-spirits-at-yossi-milo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanele Muholi and Morgan Mahape in \u2018African Spirits\u2019 at Yossi Milo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zanele Muholi\u2019s \u2018Somnyama Ngonyama\u2019 (Hail the Dark Lioness) photo series features the South African activist and artist modeling dramatic outfits that on closer inspection turn out to be composed of everyday household items.\u00a0 Muholi\u2019s source image for this beaded panel created with fellow South African artist Morgan Mahape involved a headdress crafted from donut-shaped scouring pads, an important detail that\u2019s less apparent here.\u00a0 Muholi\u2019s softer look and averted gaze are less confrontational than the series\u2019 other powerful images but the piece reads as a tribute to an artist who uses her own body to challenge perceptions and prompt reflection.\u00a0 (On view in \u2018African Spirits\u2019 at Yossi Milo Gallery<\/a> through August 23rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Zanele Muholi and Morgan Mahape, Somnyama Ngonyama, beads on string, wooden panel, approximately 84 x 60 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zanele Muholi\u2019s \u2018Somnyama Ngonyama\u2019 (Hail the Dark Lioness) photo series features the South African activist and artist modeling dramatic outfits that on closer inspection turn out to be composed of everyday household items.\u00a0 Muholi\u2019s source image for this beaded panel created with fellow South African artist Morgan Mahape involved a headdress crafted from donut-shaped scouring … <\/p>\n

Read more “Zanele Muholi and Morgan Mahape in \u2018African Spirits\u2019 at Yossi Milo Gallery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[2465,8,117,13,8547,8545,17,8546,849,16,1801,7658],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-activism","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-hail-the-dark-lioness","tag-morgan-mahape","tag-photography","tag-somnyama-ngonyama","tag-south-africa","tag-tour","tag-yossi-milo","tag-zanele-muholi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}