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The Record Is the Asset

Kendéli Dyed Cloth.
Kendéli Dyed Cloth. Courtesy of the Institute of African Textile. Photo: Jon Brown

“Get the right person in the room and they can tell you exactly where a record lives.” Adaobi Orajiaku is describing Nigeria’s National Gallery of Art. Its documentation department maintains printed and handwritten catalogues recording how each work entered the national collection. Orajiaku’s company, Atsur, has spent the past two years working with the Gallery […]

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