Party Time: Re-imagine America

Originally created in 2009 in honor of the Newark Museum's Centennial, Party Time: Re-imagine America is a major site-specific installation by internationally acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. 

On view to coincide with the reinstallation of our Arts of Global Africa collection, Party Time is set in the mahogany-paneled dining room of the Ballantine House, built in 1885 for the prominent Newark brewing family Jeannette and John Holme Ballantine and part of the Museum's campus since 1937.

In this opulent interior, the artist has staged an imagined scene of a late nineteenth century dinner party midway through a multi-course feast. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.