Close Looking Guides

These Close Looking Guides invite you to explore artworks through sustained attention, reflection, and conversation.

Each guide is a living space—continually shaped through looking, interpretation, and shared responses.

You are invited to share your own reflections, comments, or images directly within each guide.

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Re-envisioning Blackness — Close Looking Guide

A focused exploration of representation, history, and visual culture through selected works examining Black identity.

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Queer African Art — Close Looking Guide

Explore themes of identity, belonging, and transformation through artworks from Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art.

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