San Antonio Museum of Art presents New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations

The San Antonio Museum of Art opened New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, a groundbreaking exhibition that offers a rare look into the dynamic, living art form of masquerade. Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art in partnership with Musée de Civilisations noires in Dakar, Senegal, New African Masquerades will be on view in the Cowden Gallery through July 5, 2026. The exhibition presents the work of four leading contemporary artists from different regions of West Africa: David Sanou of Burkina Faso; Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah of Sierra Leone; Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa of Nigeria; and Hervé Youmbi of Cameroon, who is also one of the curators of the exhibition. “Masquerade” is loosely defined as a broad set of practices wherein individuals and societies dance in full-body, multimedia