Article continues below this ad Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diaspora: Paintings, sculpture, installations and documentary video. Through Jan. 2.

“The Mami Wata exhibition will capture the imagination of our visitors, most of whom are familiar with the idea of mermaids, but likely unfamiliar with how this particular and alluring water spirit is ...

The exhibition, “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” gets its title from the African name for a water deity often depicted as a mermaid with a mane of long hair and ...

The exhibition, “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” gets its title from the African name for a water deity often depicted as a mermaid with a mane of long hair and ...