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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
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
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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
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
related:
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
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
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
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."
read also Africa Museum Tervueren
Indianapolis Museum of Arts presents:
Cycles:
African Life Through Art IMA—Indianapolis
Museum of Art 4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis IN 46208-3326 Tel: 317-920-2660
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