African Arts articles from June 2006

African Arts archives from June 2006

Contrary to the temptation! An appeal for a new dialogue among museums and collectors, scholars, and dealers.(first word)
June 22, 2006... Relationships between museums and private collectors are determined by a complicated equilibrium. In the best cases they are characterized by a balanced give-and-take oriented to specific projects and through which critical perceptions, high...

Iconic autopsy: a response.(dialogue)
June 22, 2006... The article by Shannen Hill, "Iconic Autopsy: Postmortem Portraits of Bantu Stephen Biko," in African Arts 38 (3):14-25, explores the postmortem portraits of Bantu Stephen Biko and their impact on society and art. It is a stirring and critical...

Vodou: Vision and Voices of Haiti.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Vodou: Vision and Voices of Haiti Phyllis Galembo; introduction by Gerdes Fleurant Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1998, reissued 2005. 113 pp. 85 color, 10 b/w illustrations. Glossary, bibliography, discography, and index. $24.95,...

Life & Afterlife in Benin.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Life & Afterlife in Benin Edited by Alex Van Gelder NY: Phaidon Press, 2005. 135 pp., 78 b/w illustrations, 1 map, biographies, index. $59.95 hardcover. Travelling Light Paul Weinberg Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004....

Trophies of Grace? The "art" collecting activities of United Brethren in Christ missionaries in nineteenth century Sierra Leone.
June 22, 2006... The collecting activities of a group of American missionaries in southern Sierra Leone in the second half of the nineteenth century have an importance that has not been widely recognized. They were members of an evangelical protestant church,...

In my Garment there is nothing but God: recent work by Ibrahim el Salahi.
June 22, 2006... Ibrahim el Salahi was born in the Sudan in 1930, and is widely recognized as one of the progenitors of modern painting in that country. (1) He studied in Khartoum at the School of Design Gordon Memorial College, in London at the Slade School,...

Destiny world: textile casualties in Southern Nigeria.
June 22, 2006... Chaos is precariously near.--Anton Ehrenzweig (1967:31) Walking along an Ibadan roadside in July 1996, I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of a cloth displayed in a market stall--a bedsheet repeatedly printed with the recognizable face...

Going global: Tuareg jewelry in the international marketplace.
June 22, 2006... Over the last thirty years, the silver jewelry of the Tuareg has gained increasing recognition in Europe and America as missionaries, aid workers, Peace Corps volunteers, and tourists visited Mali, Niger, and southern Algeria. They often...

Ethiopian painting of King Takla Haymanot's war with the Dervishes.(research note)
June 22, 2006... Introduction In the late 1960s or early 1970s, an American traveller, Joseph Knopfelmacher, acquired an immense and very remarkable Ethiopian painting on cloth that was later purchased by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University...

African worlds.
June 22, 2006... Horniman Museum, London The Horniman Museum, located in Forest Hill, a southern London neighborhood, is the perfect example of the overlooked gem of a museum. Overshadowed by the larger museums, such as the British Museum, in central...

Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal Adornment.
June 22, 2006... The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Gainesville, Florida November 9, 2004-June 2006 "Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal Adornment" showcases many new works of adornment to the Ham collection of African Art. The exhibition was...

Beaded Prayers.(National Center of Afro-American Artists' exhibition)
June 22, 2006... National Center of Afro-American Artists Boston October 28, 2005-February 2006 Memory, spiritual creativity, unity, and diversity were issues conveyed by Sonya Clark in her "Beaded Prayers" exhibition at the National Center of...

Current events.(meetings of arts center)(Calendar)
June 22, 2006... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Conflict and Art June 7 August 27, 2006 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Stanford, CA Power Dressing Men's Fashion and Prestige in...

Errata.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2006... "The Otsa Festival of the Ekperi: Igbo Age-Grade Masquerades on the West Bank of the Niger?" published in the Winter 2003 issue of African Arts (vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 40-57) contains two misstatements generated in the editing process that were...