David
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In the following day and months there will be some quite interesting auctions, fairs and exhibitions available for the African Art and Antique interested lovers. It is not so often that you hear about exhibitions organized in Africa, but this month there is also one opening with gold weights in Ghana.
David Norden
African Arts May Newsletter.
Discussions and strange facts
New Zealand's Maori rediscover themselves in tatoos
Not only in Europe the tatoos are on a revival, but also Ta moko , an art form that once seemed destined for oblivion, is again a solemn declaration of the native people's identity and dignity.
Nastya Met-Art NEFERTITI, IDIA AND OTHER AFRICAN ICONS IN EUROPEAN and US MUSEUMS like Met-Art : THE THIN EDGE OF EUROPEAN MORALITY.
Dr. Kwame Opoku Mon, who believs that African art objects in European museums should in principle be returned to Africa, was once asked which of the African queens in European museums, Nefertiti or Ida was the most beautiful?
He answered: I could only really appreciate the full beauty of the ladies now kept in European captivity when they are released and returned to their home countries. For me, beauty is more than the physical appearance. I need to see these persons in their social and cultural environment and to appreciate the respect and the veneration their people bring to them ... read Nastya Met-Art.
I guess Dr. Kwame Opoku Mon did not visited the interesting Picasso exhibition in South Africa a few months ago.
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Fairs:
NEW
LOCATION!!! GRAMERCY PARK ARMORY
Lexington Avenue at 26th Street.
New
York City
May 15th-18th, 2008
this is the FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL New
York tribal textile arts fair
SAVE THE DATES: also to put on your agenda' are the coming Bruneaf (June 4-8 2008),
the Indian & Tribal Art Shows Santa Fe August 14 - 17, 2008 ( “SUPERB” - New York Times) and
Whitehawk Antique Ethnographic Art Show in Santa Fee August 15-17 2008 and
Parcours
des Mondes in Paris (10 - 14 September 2008)
Exhibitions:
African art pattern
BMA exhibition explores roles of pattern in African Art
The final installment of a three-part series, Meditations on African Art is now on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The series is framed around general artistic conventions, rather than geography or chronology.
University of Ghana shows brass and gold weights
THE Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana on Thursday opened an exhibition of more than 1,200 brass works used as weights for the gold trade in the Gold Coast.
Carved
ivory treasures 2008 exhibition
This yoruba carved ivory is on show among others in the treasures 2008 exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington;
read carved ivory
Auctions
Bonhams_New_York
Fine African and Oceanic Art
Thursday 15 May 2008, 1 pm. 595 Madison Avenue, Sixth Floor
New York, New York 10022. Preview May 9-14, 2008
Collectors of outstanding African and Oceanic art are awaiting fine art auctioneer
Bonhams’ upcoming sale on May 15th, 2008 in New York City, following the success of the newly formed department’s inaugural sale in the Fall of 2007.
Punu/Lumbo collected in Gabon by a relative of Mrs. Halter prior to World War II.
SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK SPRING SALE OF AFRICAN, OCEANIC & PRE-COLUMBIAN ART TO BE HELD ON 16 MAY 2008, INCLUDING OBJECTS FROM THE
BAREISS, BOHLEN AND DINHOFER COLLECTIONS.
From a Private Collection, Sotheby’s New York will offer a Punu Mask (est. $60-90,000, pictured at the right). This lost treasure was published in 1915 in a seminal book entitled Negerplastik by Carl Einstein.
Dealers
My good friend André Kirbach has a new exhibition. Also in New York Pace Primitive shows "Masks of Africa".
See some more african
art dealers in the section I created for my friends and sponsors.
Site of the Month
tribal
art in nyc
A very good site for those going to auctions and fairs in New York with the complete interactive map of New York Tribal Art dealers
Deal of the month
This old
Dogon
mask is yours for 2,200 Euro instead of the 5,000 euros listed price. Only one available
for a reader of this newsletter !
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Hope you enjoyed this edition,
David Norden
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