African Arts articles from June 2001

African Arts archives from June 2001

Body talk. (First Word).(Transcript)
June 22, 2001... What on earth could nineteenth-century Luba depictions of the female body have in common with the contemporary sculptures of Los Angeles artist Alison Saar? How is culture inscribed on the female body and who interprets it how? Is gender a...

Review of "the eternal face". (dialogue).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In its Winter 2000 issue African Arts published Professor Allen F. Roberts's extensive review of the exhibition "The Eternal Face: African Masks and Western Society" at the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands. As guest-curator of this...

Wrapped In Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American identity. (Books).
June 22, 2001... WRAPPED IN PRIDE Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity Doran H. Ross with contributions by Agbenyega Adedze, Abena P.A. Busia, Nii O. Quarcoopome, Betsy D. Quick, Raymond A. Silverman, Anne Spencer Textile Series, no. 2. UCLA Fowler...

Reflections on "African voices" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of natural history.
June 22, 2001... Unless you know the road you have come down, you cannot know where you are going. --Temne proverb, Sierra Leone In December 1999 the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History celebrated the opening of "African Voices" (Fig. 1)....

Palo Monte Mayombe and its influence on Cuban contemporary art.
June 22, 2001... The "rayados," those sworn into the Congo Reglas, as are the Lucumi [Yoruba] descendants and initiates in the cult of the Orishas, consider themselves united by a sacred bond of mystical kinship and, like them, speak and pray in their...

More than the human figure: the Marc and Denyse Ginzberg collection of African art.
June 22, 2001... One of Marc Ginzberg's first purchases of African art was a snuff bottle. Having grown up around his parents' collection of Asian snuff bottles, he was comfortable with the forms and was also interested in how artists from different areas of...

Baba Wague Diakite: "respect yourself as well as your tradition." (portfolio).(artist)
June 22, 2001... Baba Wague Diakite is an artist who defies categorization--a fact that reveals as much about the limits of artistic categories as it does about Diakite's multiple talents. Both Malian and American, the artist has been a resident of Portland,...

The Metropolitan Museum of art, New York. (new acquisitions).
June 22, 2001... The works from Africa selected for the current "Recent Acquisitions" installation on view in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (May 22-October 28) reflect an appreciation for the breadth, diversity, and vitality of the continent's cultural...

The African Roots Of The Amistad Rebellion: Masks of the Sacred Bush. (recent exhibitions).
June 22, 2001... THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF THE AMISTAD REBELLION Masks of the Sacred Bush The Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut July 15, 2000-December 31, 2001 "The African Roots of the Amistad Rebellion" exhibits forty...

Art And Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa.
June 22, 2001... ART AND ORACLE Spirit Voices of Africa The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York April 26-July 30, 2000 Exhibitions are no longer straightforward enterprises in which one simply considers the selection of items and the manner of...

African Voices.
June 22, 2001... AFRICAN VOICES National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Opened December 1999 I have visited "African Voices" at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History several times since it first opened in...

Current events.
June 22, 2001... Information subject to change western states (by closing date) YORUBA DIVINATION Selections from the Collections of William and Berta Bascom Through June Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology University of California...

Wrapped In Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity: A Curriculum Resource Unit.
June 22, 2001... WRAPPED IN PRIDE Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity A Curriculum Resource Unit Lyn Avins and Betsy D. Quick UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 1998. 162 pp., 20 color slides. $40 soft-cover. This curriculum...

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935.
June 22, 2001... PERFECT DOCUMENTS: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935 Virginia-Lee Webb The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000. 112 pp. 88 b/w photos, notes, bibliography, appendixes, index. $24.95 softcover. Modernist strategies for the...