The Africa Center, nke a na-akpọbu Museum for African Art na tupu nke ahụ dị ka Center for African Art, bụ ụlọ ihe ngosi nke dị na Fifth Avenue na 110th Street na East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, na nso ugwu njedebe nke Fifth Avenue's Museum. Mile. Tọrọ ntọala na 1984, ihe ngosi nka "raara onwe
ya nye n'ịbawanye Protestant na ekele maka nka na omenala Africa." A ụlọ ihe ngwere nka nke ọma maka mmemme mgbochi na eze na-enyere aka n'ịmata omenala ndị Africa, ma na-arụkwa ụlọ, iche iche na -ere ezigbo ọrụ aka Africa[1]
Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka ahaziela ihe ngosi ihe ngosi 60 dị oke egwu ma gaa ebe ndị a na ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ ebe 140 na mba na mba ụwa, gụnyere mba 15 ndị ọzọ. Iri anọ n'ime ihe ngosi ndị a na-eso katalọgụ ndị ọkà mmụta.
Holland Cotter dere na 2010 ihe dị ugbu a bụ Africa Center, "Na 1980 na 90s ọkụ ụzọ nkà, nkà ọ gbakwunye, nwere ike igosi. Ọ dịghị onye ọzọ ewerela ihe ịma aka ahụ n'ụzọ zuru ezu ikike. anya, ụlọ ngosi ihe ngosi nka n'onwe ya, n'okpuru kechie afọ ole na ole gara aga, nwere ike ime ya ọzọ." [2]
Ihe bụ ugbu a Africa Center e meghere dị ka Center for African Art na September 1984 site ya ntọala director, Susan Mullin Vogel, onye na mbụ ọrụ dị ka Associate Curator na "Department of Primitive Art" na Metropolitan Museum of Art . Ebe izizi ahụ dị na Upper East Side nke Manhattan, na "otu ụzọ ụlọ obodo na-enye 54 East 68th Street." [1] [2] Dị ka onye ntụziaka, Vogel chepụtara ma hazie ihe ngosi ihe na-emebi ala nke na-etinye ihe n'ụzọ a na-esi egosi ndị na-ege ntĩ n'Ebe Ọdịda ụgbọ nka nka Africa, yana ka ụlọ ngosi ihe ochie si hazi ihe maka nsogbu. Ihe ngosi ndị a kacha mara amara bụ "Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections" na 1988, " Exhibition : Museums and African Art" na 1994, na "Africa Explores: 20th- Century African Art" na 1991. Dabere na ihe. enyo Vogel mbụ, Roberta Smith dere na New York Times na 1989 na 1980s "nwere ike bụrụkwa ịhụ nke awụ ọla edo nke ihe ngosi nka nke Africa." [3]
[4]Na February 1993, ụlọ ọrụ aha ya na Museum for African Art wee kwaga okpukpu okpukpu atọ na 593 Broadway na Soho, nke onye na-ese ụlọ ụlọ na onye na-ese ihe bụ Maya Lin mere ma በቀላሉ ya site n'aka. onye nkatọ New York Times architecture Herbert Muschamp. dị ka "usoro veranda na-ahọpụta, na-iche n'elu ala abụọ," nke Lin "na-eji gradations dị nro nke agba na-atụ aro gabiga oge yana mmanya." [1] [2] Mgbe onye nhazi ntọala Vogel kpọchara onye isi ụlọ ọrụ Art Gallery University Yale na 1994, Grace C. Stanislaus ka ikiri onye isi na February 1995. [3] Elsie McCabe (nke mechara Elsie McCabe Thompson) duuru ụlọ ọrụ. ahụ site na 1997 mgbe ọ gbara arụkwaghịm na 2012. Mgbe McCabe weghaara ya, o "doro anya ya na isiga obere ụlọ ihe mgbe ochie na ruo nchịkọta" site na Soho gaa n'ebe ugwu Manhattan, na-ekwu (n'ụzọ dị ụzọ nyere na ọ kwagara ebe ngwere nka na ebe nke atɔ na nke anọ), " lumin ihe ngwere nka bụ nnukwu ụlọ. ma ọ bụrụ na ị na-eme njem mgbe niile."
Na September 2002, ihe ngosi nka kwagara ebe nke atọ ya, na 36-01 43rd Avenue, nke atọ, na Long Island City, Queens, ezubere dị ka "ụlọ nwa oge tupu ịkwaga 110th Street na Fifth Avenue na Manhattan," a saịtị ahụ na 2002 tụrụ anya na ọ ga-adị njikere "n'ime afọ anọ ma ọ bụ karịa." [5] [6] Na 2005, ihe ngosi nka so na 406 New York City nka na ụlọ ọrụ na-elekọta mmadụ iji nweta akụkụ nke onyinye $ 20 nde sitere n'aka Carnegie Corporation, nke emere site na onyinye nke onye isi obodo New York City Michael Bloomberg . [7] [8] Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka mechiri ụlọ ngosi ọha ya na Queens na 2006, na 2013, bọọdụ ahụ gbanwere aha ya gaa na New Africa Center, nke mechara bụrụ Africa Center, ma gbanwee ebumnuche ya site na ụlọ ngosi nka nka gaa na "ụlọ mkpochapụ na ụlọ ọrụ amụma ọha maka mmadụ niile. ihe ndị Africa." [9] Mgbe ọtụtụ afọ nke oghere na-egbu oge gasịrị, [1] na ịghọta na ebumnuche mbụ nke ụlọ ngosi ihe mgbe ochie dị na Fifth Avenue abụghị ihe na-adịgide adịgide, [10] e mere mkpebi iji gbasaa ohere ọrụ ahụ, ma weghachite oghere ahụ na 2015. . Ụlọ ọhụrụ a ga-adị na Museum Mile na akuku Fifth Avenue na East 110th Street na East Harlem, Manhattan . [11]
[1] Ebe ọhụrụ ahụ, n'ụlọ a rụrụ nke onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ Robert A.M. Stern, bụ ụlọ ngosi ihe ngosi mbụ nke e wuru na New York's Museum Mile kemgbe emechara Guggenheim na 1959. Ọ ga-eje ozi dị ka ebe ọdịbendị, na-egosipụta onwe ya ka Eshia Society na otu ndị ọzọ yiri ya. Ebumnobi ụlọ ọhụrụ ahụ bụ ime ka ọtụtụ ndị si n'ụwa nweta ihe ngosi nka, wee mee ka ọnụnọ ụlọ ngosi nka sie ike dịka otu n'ime ụlọ ọrụ nka kacha sie ike na ụdị dị iche iche na U.S.[1] Ụlọ ọhụrụ a ga-agbakọta ihe dịka 90,000 square (8,400 m2) nwere oghere ngosi 16,000 square (1,500 m2), yana ụlọ ihe nkiri, ebe agụmakwụkwọ, ọba akwụkwọ, klaasị, oghere mmemme, ụlọ oriri na ọṅụṅụ na ụlọ ahịa onyinye. Ọ bụ onye isi oche Uzodinma Iweala na ndị otu Chelsea Clinton, Halima Dangote, na Hadeel Ibrahim ada Mo Ibrahim butere mmepe mmepe ahụ.
[12]Ọ bụ ebe na e wuchara mpụta nke ụlọ ahụ n'afọ 2010, n'ime ime ụlọ dị oke mkpa na-arụ ọrụ na-egbu oge site n'ịkwụsị mbikọta ego na ụzọ ndị isi. [1] Na 2015, Africa Centre goro Michelle D. Gavin, onye bụbu onye nzaghachi United States na Botswana na ngwaahịa na Africa, dị ka onye ntuziaka ya. [2] Gavin achọ na-eme afọ 2016. [3] N'ime oge ahụ, Africa Center ga-ahụ ihe omume n'ime oghere ọhụrụ ya ruo mgbe arụchara ụlọ ahụ. [4] [5] N'anyị Febụwarị 2019, Terenga, ụlọ oriri na nri nke West Africa, mepere na oghere Africa Center.
[13]Ndị ọrụ Africa na-akwadokwa Portal Studios Shared, nke na-akpa etiti na-ebi ndụ na azụ na obodo gburugburu ụwa. Ọtụtụ Portal njikọ bụ na saịtị dị na kọntinent Africa