Holland Cotter writes: "For centuries Euro-American eyes have been trained on Africa. We’ve scanned it from afar, surveyed it up close, put it behind glass; looked and looked, wonderingly, acquisitively, disdainfully, fearfully.
"But we rarely seem to be aware that during all that time Africans have been looking back at us — wonderingly, acquisitively, disdainfully, fearfully."
A carving by the Yoruba artist Thomas Ona Odulate of a European couple walking a dog. From The New York Times
Detroit Institute of Art. April 18 - August 8 2010. Through African Eyes. Click Here
