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African Arts articles from December 2006
A quarterly journal devoted to the contemporary and traditional arts of Africa. Includes sculpture in wood, metal, ceramic, ivory, and stone, as well as work in fiber, hide, mud, and other materials. Covers architecture, arts of personal adornment, contem
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African Arts archives from December 2006
"Les arts premiers" in Paris: le monument de l'autre.(first word)
December 22, 2006... The month of June in Paris marks the customary beginning of la saison des fetes, as arts institutions and organizations seek to capture not only tourist dollars but also the attention of locals before they vacate for summer holidays in the...
My Journey Through African Heritage.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... My Journey Through African Heritage
Alan Donovan Nairobi: Kenway Publications (East African Educational Publishers), 2005. Distributed in North America by Michigan State University Press and in the UK by African Books Collective (Oxford)....
Yoruba Religious Textiles: Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Yoruba Religious Textiles Essays in Honor of Cornelius Adepegba Edited by Elisha P. Renne and Babatunde Agbaje-Williams Ibadan: Book Builders. 259 pp., 16 color plates, 68 b/w illustrations. $16.95 paper
This is an important book dealing...
Intersections: World Arts Local Lives.(exhibition preview)
December 22, 2006... In September of 2006 the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History opened to the public the first long-term installation dedicated to its permanent collections. Titled "Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives," this 6,300-square-foot exhibition...
Ghanaian interweaving in the nineteenth century: a new perspective on Ewe and Asante textile history.
December 22, 2006... Kente cloth is widely known in West Africa and beyond, especially in the United States. The name refers today to handwoven textiles, often made of rayon with bright color contrasts, which are composed of narrow strips sewn together edge to edge...
Dak'Art 2006: positions and perspectives.(Personal account)
December 22, 2006... Dak'Art Spaces of Expression
POLLY NOOTER ROBERTS, with excerpts from an interview in Dakar on July 7, 2006, with Ousseynou Wade, Secretaire General de la Biennale de I'art contemporain.
For the past fourteen years, the Senegalese...
Samson Mudzunga, Dzingoma, and new mythologies.
December 22, 2006...
"The Coat"
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies from heel to throat,
But the fools caught it, wore it in the world's
eyes
As though they had wrought it.
Song, let them...
Dara, Mali a festival of remembrance and a celebration of community.(photo essay)
December 22, 2006... Every seven years, the village of Dara in Mali holds a festival to commemorate the founding of the village and the heroism of a young girl from the founder's family who gave her life to ensure the prosperity and continuity of this community....
Africa 05: February 10-October 31, 2005 venues throughout London.(recent exhibitions)
December 22, 2006... February 2005 ushered in the beginning of "Africa 05," a year-long cultural exchange between the United Kingdom and Africa. Visual arts institutions, concert halls, and cinemas offered viewers a forum for debate and discourse on African culture...
Current events.
December 22, 2006... Information subject to change
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Power Dressing Men's Fashion and Prestige in Africa December 2006-February 2007 Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
Art of Being Tuareg Saharan Nomads...