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World Premiere: The Ubangi exhibition at the Berg en Dal Museum

This exhibition Ubangi is the very first of its kind about this tribe . ( or read also the Dutch version Ubangi kunst)

Neuberger Museum gives African collection a new home

Marie-Thérèse Brincard, the curatorial adviser for the Neuberger Museum's African art collection to give cohesiveness to the museum, with the American collection upstairs and just below it, the African collection

Ancestral Origins of African Masterpieces Explored

Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble. Kota peoples, Mindumu group; Gabon, Upper Ogooué river. 19th century. Wood, copper, brass. H. 15 ¾ in. (40 cm). Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 71.1884.37.22

Resonance from the Past at The Middlebury College Museum of Art

More than 80 African sculptures comprise the Middlebury College Museum of Art's newest exhibition, including an intricately assembled masquerade dance costume.

Arts of Africa at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum of Art in the USA present an exhibition dedicated to the Arts of Africa, showcasing over 250 works, of great variety and quality, depicting more than 2500 years in the history of African Art.

African Reliquary
Ancestral Origins of African Masterpieces At The Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a special exhibition of acclaimed sculptural masterpieces from the heart of Africa’s equatorial rainforest, beginning October 2, 2007.

African Art Takes Center Stage At Local Museum

MAJOR Patricia and Bernard Wagner GIFT OF AFRICAN ART ESTABLISHES THE NEWARK MUSEUM AS A LEADING REPOSITORY OF YORUBA ART

Seattle Art Museum African art
Spirit and flesh fuse through art in Africa. SAM African art curator Pam McClusky brings home the message that ceremonial art is alive and well through.

MIA PURCHASES CONTROVERSIAL MASTERPIECE OF AFRICAN SCULPTURE; find out Minneapolis benin head

Barbier-Mueller museum reopens with an exhibition of its "jewels"

The cultural institution, showcasing art from Africa, Asia and Oceania in the heart of Geneva's old town, celebrates its 30th anniversary after being closed for renovations.

Barbier-Mueller Jewels reopens(April 2007)

Kuyu Tribe
Met acquires important Kuyu standing figure

Lot 202 Kuyu bought by the Metropolitan at the vente Vérité for 350,000 € + costs

African Colors

Maiden Siprit Mask (Mukuyi). Early 20th Century. Punu, Gabon. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Alan Wurtzburger, BMA 1954.145.63

Meditations on African Art Colors

April 18–August 19, 2007 Free exhibition

Unmasking the meaning behind color in African art

material journeys MFA

african vision New discoveries about African art Smithsonian unveils intriguing finds in legendary private collection

African Antiques newsletter March 2007

new Rietberg Museum opens with Emerald ceiling

African Art Patron Daniel Yohannes brings business and political connections to his seat on the Denver Art Museum's board of trustees.

BALTIMORE - The Baltimore Museum of Art is bringing African art into the light.

The exhibit, titled Meditations on African Art: Light, is the first in a three-part series that will examine the use of light, color and pattern in the objects of the BMA’s African art collection.

read : Illuminating African art

Dance Mask with Superstructure (D’mba). c. 1938. African, Guinea The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Alan Wurtzburger, Baltimore. BMA

sackler portugal treasures : "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries," will have 300 objects from Brazil, the Persian Gulf, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan and China. The three-month show, which was formally announced at a news conference in Lisbon, will open June 23, 2007. The exhibit will take up so much space that some of it will overflow into the Smithsonian's adjacent National Museum of African Art.

Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries

At the Museum of African Art, Images Deliver Reminder of Innocence Found, and Exploited

read African postcards

Review: African architectural pieces offer many reasons to see them

Charles Wright DETROIT -- The mix was complex, to say the least. Indigenous architecture developed in Africa by fusing pragmatic concerns with native spiritual beliefs. In parts of the continent with international traffic, influences from the Middle East and Europe also contributed.

For the new director of the Centre for Black African Art and Civilization in Lagos culture are not only artifacts or crafts and all other kinds of visual products but also includes those other intangible aspects of life including languages, indigenous technologies, native science, traditional governance systems and religion.

Denver Art Museum new African Art department.

Longyear Museum

Colgate boosts local arts scene with exhibitions, forum

...The visual arts are alive and well in central New York, and Colgate is contributing much to several events and exhibitions — including three concurrent exhibitions showing African art from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology —all taking place in the coming week...

21st Annual African Marketplace and Cultural Fair
A. Sat., Sun., Mon., Sept. 2 - 4, 2006

Metropolitan photography Hidden Gems (150,000 of Them)

The Photograph Study Collection consists of more than 120,000 photographs dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Pacific Islands, and native and Precolumbian America.

For some, Branly museum hits close to the heart

PARIS When Patricia Mavoungou, a municipal employee from the Paris suburbs, brought her son to France's new museum of non-Western art, the first thing they did was search for artifacts from the Congo Republic, where she was born. And they found them: two Punu masks on dramatic display

Textile display gives peak into African culture

Colorful costumes serve special purposes in festival rituals at Zora Neale.

This detail of the Fante Asafo fighting flag from Ghana shows applique figures in scenes that represent the Fante resistance to Portuguese imperialism.
(ZORA NEALE HURSTON NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS)

Nelson-Atkins African Art Collection

REAL AIRPORT ART PYLONS on display

Bowers museum

California: ART OF ADORNMENT: TRIBAL BEAUTY

African Gold

Gold Dazzles at the National Museum of African Art online exhibit :"African Gold" on view for extended run in Washington Akan artist, Ghana Sword handle of a hand holding a snake Gold leaf and wood

Albuquerque museum's first major exhibit of African sculptures, masks, ceramics and textiles shows how a culture's creations go to the core of its beingwestern city of Matanzas by painter Lorenzo Tomas Padilla Diaz.

Chirac Museum Project Drives Paris Market...

Branly: discours de Jacques Chirac

video BBC Branly Museum

Arts premiers : Jacques Chirac rend hommage aux "peuples humiliés et méprisés"

Longyear Museum Colgate boosts local arts scene with exhibitions, forum

Nelson-Atkins African Art Collection

Brown University Bill Van Siclen: African exhibit illuminates depths below the surface

Gold Dazzles at the National Museum of African Art online exhibit :"African Gold" on view for extended run in Washington

Cuban Museum Receives Multi-Million Dollar African Art Donation

Havana, An African art collection valued in $3.2 million was donated to the Art Museum in Cuba’s

Tatoos Skin Marks
The exhibition "Skin Marks - Body Pictures", on display in the main building of the museum from the 29th April, 2006 to September, 2007 shows the human skin as a projection surface for artistic design.

Indianapolis Museum of Art renovations

...Most of the 12,251 square feet of space is devoted to African art -- a total of 400 works, including 30 pieces that have never been shown in the gallery...

Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna

New Benin museum to lure back sub-Saharan Africa's lost art

UCLA Fowler

Appleton museum Ocala

Art Institute of Chicago Ceramics

Storage Container, early/mid-20th century. Nuna; Burkina Faso. Collection of Keith Achepohl.

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- There's a special exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, but don't look for the bright hues of the French impressionism for which the museum is famous; the colors of these works are the muted earth tones of African mud and clay.

We are all African-Americans SAN FRANCISCO
Thousands preview African museum Moad in SF

Power Dressing : Men's Fashion and
Prestige in Africa
Newark Museum
October 19th, 2005 -January 22nd 2006

San Francisco buzzes over new de Young museum .

Even if with a controversial architecture, I think the de Young will give a new impulse to the African Art in California, and be a new attraction and extra reason for tourists to visit San Fransico .

It is not nice to hear about Smithsonian firing : African Art Director Cuts Five From Staff, Citing Cost, Priorities.

African Creativity, More About the Momentary Than the Monumental "Resonance From the Past: African Sculpture From the New Orleans Museum of Art" is at the Museum for African Art, 36-01 43rd Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718)784-7700, through May 29, 2005.

It travels to the San Antonio Museum of Art (June 25 to Oct. 2); Arkansas Art Center (Jan. 20 to April 16, 2006); the Albuquerque Museum (May 14 to Aug. 13, 2006); and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Oct. 5, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007).

Musee Dapper new directions for a postcolonial museum

African art gave Picasso an idea

JUNE 3 through JULY 31 2005

"SYMBOLS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY" African Masks and Sculptures

Selections from the George Waterhouse Collection at the West Valley Art Museum

San Antonio Museum in Texas showing African artistry

June 25-October 2, 2005 Special Exhibition, Cowden Gallery
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art... is comprised of approximately 100 works of art from this collection including masks, figures, ceramics, fabric and beadwork costumes from west and central Africa. The presentation is categorized into six geographical regions: Mali, Liberia Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast, Yoruba, Nigeria and Congo River Basin. .... Free with Museum general admission.

Birmingham Museum

"Highlights from the Walter and Molly Bareiss Collection of African Art"

Muscarelle shows Animals in African Art from the
Collection of Wallace Gusler

Musée royal de l'afrique centrale - The Memory of Congo: the Colonial Era and Congo: Nature and Culture

In French, English, Kiswahili. Two temporary exhibitions (Feb. 4 - Oct. 9, 2005) on the colonial history of the Congo and Belgium and on Congo Nature and Culture. Includes audio clips of music from the Munganga of Luabo and of Mbuti pygmees. [KF] http://www.congo2005.be/

An extensive review of the exhibition is in the New York Times, February 9, 2005, B3, "Museum Show Forces Belgium to Ask Hard Questions About Its Colonial Past" by Alan Riding. "a remarkable exhibition here has set off a critical re-examination of Belgium's record in its only African colony."

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