African Arts articles from June 2005

African Arts archives from June 2005

Senses in understandings of art.(first word)
June 22, 2005... In 2004 I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a project that has intrigued me for a long time--the role of the senses in understandings of African / African Diaspora art, and art in general. I am preparing a book on the subject. (1)...

Archaeopolitics and postage stamps in Africa.(dialogue)
June 22, 2005... A genuine advocate of Africa, Merrick Posnansky continues to find new ways to promote and explore the continent's past and present. His article (2004a) and those of Agbenyega Adedze (2004a, b) in African Arts' special section on African stamps...

The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Shattered Gourd Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art by Moyo Okediji New York: University of Washington Press, 2003. 202 pp., 46 black and white photos. $40 hardcover. This is a study of the history of the ways in which modern...

African Art at the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna.
June 22, 2005... African art enthusiasts generally associate the Vienna Museum fur Volkerkunde with its famous Benin collection and precious court dwarf figures (Fig. 1). (1) The collection gained international attention in the early 1990s after a traveling...

Borders of beads: questions of identity in the beadwork of the Zulu-speaking people.
June 22, 2005... In the volatile circumstances in which the Zulu-speaking people of southern Africa have lived during the past two hundred years, the formulation and articulation of identity at the levels of both the individual and group have been important as...

Bwadi bwa Chikwanga: a ram mask of the Bakwa Luntu.
June 22, 2005... With the exception of a few objects from the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, which are reproduced in Marc Leo Felix's 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture (1987), the art of the Bakwa Luntu is scarcely known. In the...

Hippies of Elmina.(social history)
June 22, 2005... As you enter the Ghanaian fishing port of Elmina, between the pounding surf and the majestically looming St. George's Castle (built by the Portuguese in 1482) lies a huddle of clapboard kiosks mostly proffering petty goods and "small chop."...

Casting in contemporary Benin art.
June 22, 2005... History began yesterday. --John Sanday, World Monuments Fund Unless history lives in our present, it has no future. --History Channel advertisement We begin at the end. --Archaeologist, History Channel,...

African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back.
June 22, 2005... African Art, African Voices Long Steps Never Broke a Back Philadelphia Museum of Art October 2, 2004-January 2, 2005 "African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back" is a traveling exhibition created by curator Pamela McClusky...

Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications in African Sculpture.
June 22, 2005... Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications in African Sculpture The African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly, NJ October 2, 2004-January 3, 2005 Many years in the making, this intriguing exhibition focused on a constantly...

Creating Their Own Image: A History of African-American Women Artists.(African art exhibition)
June 22, 2005... Creating Their Own Image A History of African-American Women Artists Aronson Galleries at the Parsons School of Design, New York City November 11, 2004-January 30, 2005 African Queen The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City January...

Current events.
June 22, 2005... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Basquiat July 17 October 10, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA Carnaval in Africa Photographs of Guinea Bissau by Doran H. Ross...

Moving in Time: Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Moving in Time Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa George Hallett, editor; introduction by Mandla Langa Sandton, South Africa: KMM Review/University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004. 280 pp. 206 color and 133 b/w photos. $85.95 ...

Yinka Shonibare: Double Dutch.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Yinka Shonibare Double Dutch Edited by Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert, with Barbera van Kooij Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2004. 160 pp., 75 color and 25 b/w photos, biography, bibliography. $39.95 softcover. In just over a...