The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at the Yale Center for British Art

September 22–January 22, 2023 
 
This focused exhibition of works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby is the third and final show in a series curated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and each artist. 
 
Als and Akunyili Crosby selected works from The Beautyful Ones, the artist’s ongoing series of intimate portraits of Nigerian children, including members of her own family. The title references a classic 1968 novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, by Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah. Published in a year of worldwide civic and social unrest, Armah’s book comments on the challenges of revolution, addresses the unfulfilled political promises of the postcolonial African nation-state, and looks ahead from a place of lost hope. 
 
Learn more at the Yale Center for British Art.