Symposium — Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude
A free symposium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examining the life, cross-cultural vision, and artistic legacy of Senegalese painter Iba Ndiaye.
Why we picked this
A full-day symposium at the Met devoted to one of Senegal's most important painters — free, and the kind of sustained, single-artist focus that only a major museum can pull off.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a daylong symposium exploring the life and work of Senegalese painter Iba Ndiaye, whose art bridges African and European artistic traditions. The event accompanies the museum’s current exhibition and brings together scholars and curators to examine Ndiaye’s cross-cultural vision.
Ndiaye spent decades working between Dakar and Paris, developing a painterly language that drew on both Western art historical traditions and the visual culture of West Africa. His work grapples with themes of identity, displacement, and the possibilities of synthesis across traditions.
The symposium is free with museum admission and offers a rare opportunity to hear sustained scholarly attention devoted to a single artist whose influence on contemporary African art remains profound.