Mother Africa, Father Time

Squadrons of headless fiberglass mannequins invade New York's Brooklyn Museum on June 26. They're part of "Yinka Shonibare MBE," which features sculpture, painting, photography, and film by a London-based Nigerian whose work tackles themes of contemporary African identity and the interactions between dominant and colonized cultures. One installation, Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, is a series of child-size figures dressed in Victorian costumes and hidden throughout the museum's period rooms.