Swahili, the Pulse of Life at the Crossroads: 'World on the Horizon' at the National Museum of African Art

Review by Holland Cotter

The New York Times reviewed the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art presentation of World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean.

A lot of museum shows make self-conscious gestures toward inclusion — high plus low, global plus local, insider plus outsider — but this one takes big-picture inclusivity, with its contradictions and confusions, as a primary subject.