African Arts articles from June 2007

African Arts archives from June 2007

Building a digital library of scholarly resources from the developing world: an introduction to Aluka.(first word)
June 22, 2007... In the mid-1990s, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to create and maintain a trusted online archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as...

Leon de Sousberghe, S.J. 1903-2006.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2007... "Nous parlons de l'art Pende actuel..." Leon de Clerque-Wissocq de Sousberghe, the author of Lart pende (1959) and many other important treatises, died on March 30, 2006, at the age of 102. He was born on October 25, 1903, at Conjoux Hall,...

Frank Willett: 1925-2006.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2007... It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Professor Frank Willett on June 15, 2006, a couple of months before his eighty-first birthday. He had, after all, been a presence on the African art scene longer than most of us. ...

African wave: specificity and cosmopolitanism in African comics.
June 22, 2007... While most people consider painting, novels, and film to be universal formats of artistic expression, for the combination of graphic image and narrative they commonly use expressions tied to geography, like "Japanese manga," "American comics"...

Hot space, cool space: the reinstallation of the African collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University.
June 22, 2007... Could African art live and breathe freely in a sleek, spare, and quiet Modernist building created in the 1950s? This is the question the African curatorial staff confronted in turning a second-floor space--surrounded on two sides with all-glass...

The thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto uprisings: reading the shadow in Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson.
June 22, 2007... This haunting photograph (Fig. 1) from the 1976 Soweto Uprisings in South Africa is often referred to as the single most important photograph to emerge from the struggle against apartheid (Purtilo 1999:22). According to South African film...

Continuity and change: three generations of Ethiopian artists.
June 22, 2007... Samuel P. Harn Museum ,of Art University of Florida January 23-April 29, 2007 Diggs Gallery May 25--December 8, MAJOR EXHIBITION SUPPORT IS PROVIDED BY NORTHERN TRUST BANK WITH ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE HARN MUSEUM'S MARGARET J....

Resonance and inspiration: New Works by Magdalene Odundo.
June 22, 2007... Harn Museum of Art September 5-December 31, 2006 With "Resonance and Inspiration," the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art of the University of Florida hosted the first exhibition of Magdalene Odundo's work in Florida, and the first one-person...

Daniel Yohannes Family African gallery: Denver Art Museum.
June 22, 2007... The Denver Art Museum has opened the doors to a new "wing"--a building by Daniel Libeskind--and with it a permanent gallery for its African collection. This is great news since no other public collection of African art is on display in any...

Fotofieber, Bilder aus Westund Zentralafrika: Die Reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-1885.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Fotofieber, Bilder aus Westund Zentralafrika Die Reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-1885. edited by Jurg Schneider, Ute Roschenthaler and Bernhard Gardi Basel: Museum der Kulturen Basel and Christian Merian Verlag, 2005. German. 247 pages,...

Manipulating The Sacred: Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Manipulating The Sacred Yoruba Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomble by Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. 208 pp., 44 b/w and 36 color illustrations, glossaries, bibliography, index....