African Arts articles from September 2003

African Arts archives from September 2003

Africa at the Venice Biennale.(first word)
September 22, 2003... The record-breaking heat became the primary topic of conversation this past summer at the 50th International Art Exhibition in Venice. The many artists, curators, critics, and collectors who represented the international contemporary art scene...

Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta.
September 22, 2003... Edited by Martha G. Anderson and Philip M. Peek UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2002. Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle. 364 pp., 50 b/w & 430 color illustrations, maps, tables, notes,...

Illuminated signs: style and meaning in the beadwork of the Xhosa- and Zulu-speaking peoples.
September 22, 2003... The beadwork of the Xhosa- and Zulu-speaking peoples holds painterly appeals. Color and composition combine--usually without the obviousness of figuration. No big genitals, no halos; neither Madonnas nor elephants. Sculpt an elephant, it...

African art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
September 22, 2003... The complicated history of the collection and display of African art by museums in the United States has yet to be written in any detail. (1) There are, however, numerous individual institutional histories in print. To date, this journal alone...

Adamma: a contemporary Igbo maiden spirit.
September 22, 2003... A performer wearing a large mask of a woman's face looked out flirtatiously from beneath a set of swinging black plaits hung with beads and topped with a brilliant yellow chiffon head-tie arranged at a haphazard angle. The wooden mask was...

High Museum of Art Atlanta, Georgia.(new acquisitions)
September 22, 2003... New York art collectors Fred and Rita Richman, who have longstanding business ties to Atlanta and the South, have been giving African art to the High Museum of Art for three decades. Their initial gift, presented in 1973, consisted of 250...

Beyond statistics: the AIDS wall in Harare.(research note)
September 22, 2003... When I applied for a Fulbright to work in Zimbabwe in 2000, I knew the bleak statistics about AIDS: a quarter of the country's residents were infected with HIV; millions of its children were already orphaned by the pandemic; life expectancy had...

Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa.
September 22, 2003... The Museum for African Art New York, New York April 10 October 6, 2003 Entering the exhibition "Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa" at the Museum for African Art, I was immediately struck by the dramatic exhibition design...

Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta.
September 22, 2003... UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Los Angeles, California May 19-November 17, 2002 The exhibition "Ways of the Rivers" and its accompanying publication of the same title (reviewed on p. 10) are important additions to existing...

Current events.(Calendar)
September 22, 2003... Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Mexican Trees of Life Through December 14 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Partners of the Soul African Art of the Baule Through January 4, 2004 San Diego Museum...