African Arts articles from June 2003

African Arts archives from June 2003

Tarrying with our negatives (and positives).(first word)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... It is only via the act of knowledge that the object becomes what it truly "is." Slavoj Zizek Tarrying with the Negative, 1993 Many of us who have worked in Africa for several decades face the practical problem of what to do with our...

Jak Katarikawe.(dialogue)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... I read Sidney Kasfir's essay "Katarikawe Dreaming: Notes on a Retrospective" (African Arts, Winter 2002, pp. 74-77, 96) with interest and disappointment, interest to find your journal carried a story about an old friend with whom I had long...

Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery, and Diplomacy in Madagascar.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002. 208 pp., 40 b/w & 68 color photos, 4 maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $35 softcover....

A tribute to Roy Sieber: Part 2.(Biography)
June 22, 2003... Any serious collecting... must come down to an aesthetic decision, which is what constitutes connoisseurship. (1) During his long, distinguished, and productive career as a leader in the study of African art history, Roy Sieber (Fig. 1)...

Lamba Hoany: proverb cloths from Madagascar.
June 22, 2003... The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language. Yet the peoples of each of its eighteen officially recognized Malagasy ethnic groups speak...

The curator-conservator collaboration: remembering Roy Sieber.(Biography)
June 22, 2003... At his memorial service held at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) in October 2001, it was noted that the conservation lab was second only to collection storage as Roy Sieber's favorite place to spend time in the museum (Fig. 1). Dr:...

Symbolically inscribing the city: public monuments in Mali, 1995-2002.
June 22, 2003... Rarely in a lifetime do we have the privilege and good fortune to know and to work with a truly magical person. Roy Sieber was that person to me. Roy was my major professor at Indiana University, my mentor, my colleague at the Smithsonian, and...

The incidental photographer: Roy Sieber and his African images.(Biography)
June 22, 2003... Among the essays honoring the life and achievements of Roy Sieber, this may be one of the few not written by one of his former students, Sieber's generosity extended to people like me--an orphan in the American academic system because I had...

Gifts and Blessings: the Textile Arts of Madagascar.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. April 14-September 2, 2002 Compared with the island's unique flora and fauna, the arts and cultures of Madagascar have largely been overlooked. When they are...

Karel Nel: Status of Dust.(exhibition at Art First New York and Hall & Knight New York City)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Art First New York and Hall & Knight New York City December 4, 2002-January 20, 2003 As contemporary art expands to become a more global phenomenon, growing attention has been paid to the diversity and breadth of contemporary African...

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony.(Movie Review)
June 22, 2003... Directed by Lee Hirsch Produced by Sherry Simpson Kwela Productions, 2002. 108 minutes. U.S. distributor: Artisan Entertainment. This documentary film by first-time U.S. director Lee Hirsch chronicles the role of music in South Africa's...

Current events.(Calendar)
June 22, 2003... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Kilengi African Art from the Bareiss Family Collection Through October 19 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA A Maasai Community Adorns a Bride Through...

William Pope.L: the Friendliest Black Artist in America[c].(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Edited by Mark H.C. Bessire MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002. 240 pp., 125 color illustnztions, chronology. $24.95 handcover. William Pope.L's practice is one that trades in transgression, ambivalence, humor, and ambiguity....