African Arts articles from June 2002

African Arts archives from June 2002

Leopold Senghor: the strength of contradictions. (first word).
June 22, 2002... Leopold Sedar Senghor lived a remarkable life that spanned nearly the entire twentieth century and embodied many of its contradictions. Combining memories of his childhood in coastal Senegal, where he was born in 1906, with the discipline of...

The poet of Negritude. (first word).
June 22, 2002... Leopold Sedar Senghor's unforgettable poems proclaimed a world view that, in his eyes and mind, characterized all the black peoples of Africa and of African descent. When he died last December in Normandy, France, at the age of 96, most of the...

Le Boubou--C'est Chic: Les boubous du Mali et d'autres pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Bernard Gardi Museum der Kulturen Basel and Editions Christoph Merian, Basel, 2000. Text in French. 207 pp., 179 illustrations, map, bibliography. SF 36 hardcover; German edition DM 41. Le Boubou--c'est chic, the catalogue for the...

Roy Sieber memorial issues. (dialogue).
June 22, 2002... The Spring and Summer 2003 issues of African Arts will be a tribute to the African-art historian Roy Sieber, who died last September. Christine Mullen Kreamer will serve as guest editor.

Stolen mask. (dialogue).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... A Mano mask from the Dan peoples of Liberia was stolen from a private collection in Sweden in January. The mask (24 cm high) was published in Before Picasso: African Art in Swedish Collections, 2 December 1988-15 January 1989 (Liljewalchs...

Alice McGaughey: 1925-2002. (in memoriam).(Obituary)
June 22, 2002... Alice liked to anticipate the worst. After almost every one of African Arts' white-knuckled descents on the financial rollercoaster, she would tell me with a grim sigh, "Time to clean out our desks." Somehow, however, disaster would be averted;...

The Art of Ancient Egypt.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Gay Robin Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. 272 pp., 188 b/w & 122 color illustrations, map. $24.95 softcover. Although a handful of books surveying ancient Egyptian art are readily available and published with the...

Ethnographic notes on Kongo musical instruments.
June 22, 2002... The basic text on Kongo musical instruments is Bertil Soderberg's thesis (1956), which is based on an exhaustive search of the literature of the day, a good deal of museum research, and his field experience as a missionary. Soderberg takes many...

Musee Dapper new directions for a postcolonial museum.
June 22, 2002... On a rainy afternoon in November 2001, I visited the new locale of the Musee Dapper at 35 rue Paul Valery in Paris. After considerable renovation, the museum had opened a year earlier with an inaugural show containing 150 pieces from several...

Sources and themes in the art of Obiora Udechukwu.
June 22, 2002... Me to the orangery solitude invites, a wagtail, to tell the tangled-wood-tale; a sunbird, to mourn a mother on a spray. Christopher Okigbo, "The Passage," from Heavensgate (in Okigbo 1971:4) Obiora...

Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa. (exhibition preview).
June 22, 2002... "Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa" is a collaborative effort between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Drawing from the collection of Jay T. Last, the...

Dogon funerals. (photo essay).
June 22, 2002... While living as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dogon villages of Dologou and Kedialy from 1996 to 1998, I had the opportunity to observe several funerary rituals, dama, which incorporate many of the famous Dogon masks and statuettes. The...

Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt.
June 22, 2002... National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2000-February 19, 2001 ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CONTEMPORARY National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. January 7,...

William Kentridge.
June 22, 2002... New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, New York June 2-September 16, 2001 Only thirteen years ago, William Kentridge had difficulty persuading New York art galleries to look at slides of his work. Today he is perhaps the most...

FNB Vita Art Prize Exhibition 2001.
June 22, 2002... NSA Gallery Glenwood, Durban, South Africa August 7, 2001-September 8, 2001 South Africa's long history of social inequality is reflected in art competitions and exhibitions. Choosing the "best" artists among people who have not had the...

Current events.(Calendar)
June 22, 2002... Information subject to change western states (by closing date) OVER THE LINE The Art end Life of Jacob Lawrence Through September 8 Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA WILLIAM KENTRIDGE July 21-October 6...

Insight and Artistry in African Divination.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Edited by John Pemberton III Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and London, 2000. 209 pp., 71 b/w & 19 color photos. $65 hardcover, $29.95 softcover. This publication presents fifteen essays by scholars on African...

Art in South Africa: the Future Present.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal David Philip Publishers, Clarement, South Africa, 1996. 159 pp., color photos, index. $34.95 softcover. WOMEN AND ART IN SOUTH AFRICA Marion Arnold St. Martin's Press, New York, first published by...