Shaping Power

Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, Consulting Curator, African Art and Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, talks about Shaping Power, on view at LACMA through January 5, 2014. The exhibition features Luba masterworks from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on loan from the Royal Museum for Central Africa and rarely seen outside of Belgium. Figurative thrones, elegant scepters, and ancestral figures actively contributed to the formation and expansion of a highly influential Luba state fr