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John Akomfrah

The Hour Of The Dog

2025

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John Akomfrah

The Hour Of The Dog

2025

Physical Qualities Six-channel video installation (color, sound), Duration: 50 minutes, 37 seconds
Credit Line Commissioned by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection, Houston, with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. At the Baltimore Museum of Art, the commission is also supported by Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number 2021.155
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection by commission, 2021; the Artist
Co-curated by Cecilia Wichmann and Michelle White, with Oscar Flores-Montero, The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Menil Collection, "John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog," November 16, 2025 to February 1, 2026.

Artist

John Akomfrah

born Accra, Ghana 1957

born Accra, Ghana 1957
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