By Edward Sozanski
Philly.com

By the way they present art, museums encourage us to engage objects one by one and to consider their individual characteristics. This usually produces a purely aesthetic response to a work's formal qualities, without regard to its cultural ramifications.

Occasionally, though, an exhibition reminds us that art encodes and communicates a wealth of information about the society in which it was created. "The African Presence in Mexico" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia is such an event.

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