African Arts articles from December 2003

African Arts archives from December 2003

Memory and medicine at the British Museum.(first word)
December 22, 2003... Much discussion of African art has dealt with where it fits into the bigger picture. Some of the earliest discussion, of course, simply asked how it could get into the picture--any picture. The critical theorists posed more questions. How...

Le Musee Cannibale.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Le Musee Cannibale Edited by Marc-Olivier Gonseth, Jacques Hainard, and Roland Kaehr Musee d'Ethnographie, Neuchatel, 2002. 304 pp., 2 b/w photos. CHF 25.00 softcover. Unpacking Europe Towards a Critical Reading Edited by Salah Hassan and...

Where Gods and Mortals Meet: continuity and renewal in Urhobo art.(exhibition preview)
December 22, 2003... This exhibition, curated by Perkins Foss, opens at the Museum for African Art, Long Island City, New York, on April 8 and runs through August 16. It assembles more than 80 works of Urhobo art together with photographs and video and audio...

Dakar's urban landscapes: locating modern art and artists in the city.
December 22, 2003... In cities throughout the world, one identifies the same people with the same preoccupations, expressions, and gestures. There are people in New York who live the same reality and have the same urban problems as people in Dakar. For that reason...

The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo age-grade masquerades on the west bank of the Niger?
December 22, 2003... The Ekperi speak an Edo language and trace their origins to the Edo kingdom of Benin in their orthodox history. Nevertheless, they and other northern Edo peoples living in eastern Nigeria's Etsako local government area share such cultural...

Documentary observations: the African photographs of William B. Fagg, 1949-1959.
December 22, 2003... ... I have tried to free my mind of preconceptions and liberate my thoughts about objects... yet let the reader not think that where I have said little or nothing about a piece, it is necessarily a negligible one, for the photograph may say...

The Detroit Institute of Arts.(new acquisitions)
December 22, 2003... The African art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts did not emerge as a hallmark of the museum until after the 1920s, when the DIA's director, Dr. William R. Valentiner, began to build upon the modest bequest of objects from one of its...

Baselitz Die Afrika-Sammlung.
December 22, 2003... Baselitz Die Afrika-Sammlung K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf, Germany June 6-August 24, 2003 The German painter sculptor, and graphic artist Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) owns an intriguing, "radically subjective"...

Africa: Capolavori da un continente.
December 22, 2003... Africa Capolavori da un continente Galleria di Arte Moderna Turin, Italy October 2, 2003-February 15, 2004 "Africa: Capolavori da un continente" (Africa: Masterpieces from a Continent) is one of the most impressive exhibitions of...

Current events.(Calendar)
December 22, 2003... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Masks of West Africa Rites, Rituals, and Remembering Through March 5, 2004 Washington State University Pullman, WA Artists Advertising...

In the Fullness of Time: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... In the Fullness of Time Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections James F. Romano Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2002. Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London. 94 pp., 11...