Chester Higgins work part of Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now at Metropolitan Museum

Photographer Chester Higgins a friend of African American Reports will have two of his works displayed at an exhibition, Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. In a multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production—from the 19th century to the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the present day—the exhibition includes nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media.

Higgins told African American Reports that the exhibition ‘Flight Into Egypt’ embraces our agency of sacred heritage and examines the history of African people before slavery and Genesis. It’s an awesome starting point to consider our amazing sojourn and uniqueness as a people.

He also suggested that those who attend check out the catalog and a copy of his book ‘Sacred Nile' as a gift worthy of ourselves.

Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions, and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The exhibtion runs November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025. The location is at The Met Fifth Avenue, The Tisch Galleries, Gallery 899 Floor 2.