African Arts articles from March 2002

African Arts archives from March 2002

Are we there yet? (first word).
March 22, 2002... The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has become a fixture in the city since it relocated in June 1996 to a new building on the lakefront with spacious galleries and a breathtaking view of Lake Michigan. When operations began at this new...

Art, Innovation, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Benin.
March 22, 2002... Paula Girshick Ben-Amos Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1999. 178 pp., 50 b/w illustrations. $35 hardcover. More is known about the art of the kingdom of Benin than perhaps any other kingdom on the African...

Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa.
March 22, 2002... Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York 1999. North American distributor: NYU Press. 217 pp., 19 b/w illustrations. $55 hardcover, $19.50 softcover. The series Dress, Body, Culture, edited by Joanne B....

African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone.
March 22, 2002... David Coulson and Alec Campbell Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2001. 224 pp., 256 pp., 123 b/w illustrations & 183 color photos, 7 maps. $60 hardcover. In the final three decades of the twentieth century, African rock art research...

Wereld in Beweging: Gelede-marionetten van de Anago-Yoruba (World in Motion Gelede Puppets of the Anago Yoruba).
March 22, 2002... Hans Witte Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands, 2001. Text in Dutch and English. 98 pp., 73 color photos. EUR 23,00 softcover. This beautifully illustrated catalogue was an effective companion to the exhibition of Gelede masks...

Ways of the rivers: arts and environment of the Niger Delta. (exhibition preview).
March 22, 2002... The universal stillness of the scene was very imposing; unbroken as it was by any sound, save the dashing of our own paddle-wheels, and the clear musical cry of the leadsman... The large and umbrageous trees, with their festoons of Orchidae...

Spatial continuities: masks and cultural interactions between the Delta and Southeastern Nigeria.
March 22, 2002... The artistic interactions between the various peoples of the Niger Delta and their Igbo neighbors who dominate Southeastern Nigeria to the north and east are not difficult to demonstrate. Art objects, including textiles, bronze shrine...

Commercial transactions and cultural interactions from the Delta to Douala and beyond.
March 22, 2002... Like others who do research in Africa, I frequented local and regional markets during my stay in Cameroon, from November 1988 through July 1989. The large markets draw traders from all over the country as well as from Nigeria, Ghana, and the...

Eastern Nigerian art from the Toby and Barry Hecht collection.
March 22, 2002... Sometimes a passion for collecting springs from mundane circumstance. For Toby and Barry Hecht, it began as a matter of interior decorating: after moving into a new house about eighteen years ago, a friend suggested that an African mask might...

Economic and cultural prehistory of the Niger Delta.
March 22, 2002... Lacking the written records on which the historian relies, the prehistorian seeks to reconstruct the past through means of archaeological evidence. [O]bjects recovered from archaeological excavations... bear the evidence of man's...

Wereld in Beweging. (recent exhibitions).(puppet masks)
March 22, 2002... Gelede-marionetten van de Anago-Yoruba April 1-December 31, 2001 Afrika Museum Berg en Dal, The Netherlands I ardently agree with Allen Roberts's assertion that the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal (an hour's train ride from Amsterdam)...

Hollywood icons, local demons.(Ghanian paintings)
March 22, 2002... Ghanaian Popular Paintings by Mark Anthony Belger Arts Center University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri August-October 27, 2000 Upon entering the gallery at the UMKC Belger Arts Center, I was greeted--and almost...

Haiti: Vodou Visionaries.
March 22, 2002... Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Chicago, Illinois March 9-May 26, 2001 The stunning "Haiti: Vodou Visionaries" presented recent contributions by contemporary Haitian artists placed in the context of Vodou's vibrant and...

Current events.
March 22, 2002... Information subject to change western states (by closing date) BREAK THE SILENCE Art and HIV/AIDS in South Africa Through April 28 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Los Angeles, CA YOU LOOK BEAUTIFUL LIKE THAT The...

Subject index.
March 22, 2002... ACASA symposium see Triennial Symposium on African Art Africa Museum, Tervuren see Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale African American see also Caribbean; African diaspora African American altars Bettelheim (Dialogue) Wehmeyer...