Art Review – ‘Mami Wata’ – At National Museum of African Art, a Diva of the Deep

Noted: Provider of riches, she is described as the â??capitalist deity par excellenceâ? by the showâ??s curator, John Henry Drewal, a professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as such, sheâ??s a natural bailout savior for our time. But when assailed by qualms over ethics, she can cause trouble, sending Madoffian fortunes onto the rocks with the flick of a fin.