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African Arts articles from March 2005
A quarterly journal devoted to the contemporary and traditional arts of Africa. Includes sculpture in wood, metal, ceramic, ivory, and stone, as well as work in fiber, hide, mud, and other materials. Covers architecture, arts of personal adornment, contem
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African Arts archives from March 2005
Assemblies: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art.(art exhibitions)
March 22, 2005... During the week of October 18, 2004, Pamela Allara, Kyle Kauffman, and I organized a series of events and exhibitions around the theme of "Assemblies: Excavation and Reconstruction in Contemporary African Art" at Brandeis University and...
The Art of Ife: A Descriptive Catalogue and Database.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Art of Ife A Descriptive Catalogue and Database
by Frank Willett with a chapter by Barbara Blackmun. Database prepared by Emma Lister.
Glasgow: The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Glasgow; 2004. CD-ROM....
Fundi Mdawala/Jak Katarikawe.(evaluation of African arts and criticism and interpretation of Ugandan painter )(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... Your recent issue of African Arts (37, 2) contains an article and a letter to which I want to respond:
First, the article: In his informative and valuable paper on the Luguru woodcarver Fundi Mdawala bin Milongo, Edward A. Alpers notes that...
Homage to Dr. Alphonse Lema Gwete (d. 2004).(art museum directors)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... In my dairy of January 1990 I noted down: "I met with Lema Gwete, the chief director of the IMNZ [Institut des Musees Nationaux de Zaire], with his wife mama Valentine Mbembo Nsanga and with some of his seven children at his home in Kinshasa. I...
Beads of life: Eastern and Southern African adornments.(exhibition preview)
March 22, 2005... The exhibition "Beads of Life: Eastern and Southern African Adornments" presents 185 artefacts drawn from Canadian collections. This may be the first time that beadwork from eastern and southern Africa has been brought together in a single...
Sukuma figures, boundaries, and the arousal of spectacle.(African dance)
March 22, 2005... There are circumstances in which looking itself is a source of pleasure, just as, in reverse formation, there is pleasure in being looked at. Laura Mulvey (1989:16)
Dancing is a great obstacle to the conversion of the Sukuma. W.E Pere...
Spirits incarnate: cultural revitalization in a Nigerian Masquerade Festival.
March 22, 2005... Under the cloudy skies that marked the declining days of the rainy season, the 1993 Enugu State Mmanwu Festival helped to modernize Igbo masking. Maskers and musicians, dancers and titled men paraded in the afternoon heat and helped shape...
Images of power, images of humiliation: Congolese "colonial" sculpture for sale in Rwanda.(Colonie Beige)
March 22, 2005... It is one of the most powerful images in what Fabian calls Congolese popular art: A large, stern-faced African policeman prepares to administer a blow to a prone African prisoner, while a Belgian administrator looks on. The painting typically...
A superb Yoruba horseman.(research of African sculpture)
March 22, 2005... The unusual carving discussed here is of a bearded rider holding the reins in his left hand. He is wearing a short-sleeved tunic and breeches, his coiffure dressed as a long, interlaced pigtail falling to the horse's rump, with white painted...
Joshua Adelakun of Mede.(works of African sculptor)
March 22, 2005... I first heard of Joshua Adelakun in 1964 at Ilase. I was told that there were now no practicing sculptors in the town and that when carvings were required, the work was usually commissioned from an unnamed woodcarver at Mede. (Mede is a small...
Playful Performers.(exhibition about African children's masquerade in sub-Saharan Africa)
March 22, 2005... Playful Performers April 9-December 12, 2004 Smithsonian/National Museum of African Art
Playful Performers, in the main temporary space at the National Museum of African Art, was an exhibition about children's masquerade in sub-Saharan...
Current events.
March 22, 2005... Information subject to change
* western states (by closing date)
Material Differences Art and Identity in Africa April 2, 2005-June 19, 2005 Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA
Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African...
Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn New York: Museum for African Art, 2001. 263 pp., 53 b/w photos, 230 color photos, 4 maps, glossary. $75.00 cloth, $45.00 paper.
Written as a catalogue to accompany an...
Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa by Pamela Allara, Marilyn Martin, and Zola Mtshiza
Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Office of Publications, 2003; 92 pp., 32 b/w photos and 32 color plates, map, bibliography,...
A vez dos cestos/Time for Baskets.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A vez dos cestos/Time for Baskets by Sonia Silva Lisbon: Museu nacional de Etnologia, 2003.186 pp. Portuguese text with English translation. 60.00 [euro].
The Museu Nacional de Etnologia is one of Lisbon's little-known gems. Situated in...
Der Mond als Schuh: Zeichnungen der San.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Der Mond als Schuh: Zeichnungen der San
The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San edited by Miklos Szalay Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2002.309 pp., parallel German/English text, 3 maps, 80 b/w illustrations, 229 colour plates, 34 colour...