Face-off with a founding father: Brooklyn honours African art by placing it amidst its other collections

Founding fathers: An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum pairs a Kuba mask from the Republic of Congo with a Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington
 Brooklyn Museum

 New exhibition seeks to “fill in the blanks that are still present in museums and art history books”

IMAGINE a Kuba mask crafted from rawhide, shells and monkey hair staring impassively at Gilbert Stuart’s stately 1796 painting of George Washington.