African Arts articles from September 2008

African Arts archives from September 2008

Africa Remix remix.(first word)
September 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Between Summer 2004 and September 2007 the blockbuster exhibition "Africa Remix: The Contemporary Art of a Continent" made a three continent tour, appearing at Dusseldorf's Museum Kunst Palast, London's Hayward...

The (dis)placement of national art in a transnational artworld.(dialogue)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Over the past fifteen years, critical and curatorial attention in the field of contemporary African art has shifted steadily away from a primarily tropical geography of practice toward a global, diasporic one. And this is neither surprising nor...

Observing Komo among Tagwa people in Burkina Faso: a Burkinabe art historian's views.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... As with many other ethnic groups in Africa, Senufo identity was the creation of the French colonial administration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In spite of some similarities, those peoples whom the French grouped...

Buffalo helmets of Tussian and Siemu peoples of Burkina Faso.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Tussian and Siemu peoples living west of Bobo-Dioulasso in southwestern Burkina Faso are relatively unknown in the West. This article focuses on a type of sculpture rarely found in Western collections: a wooden helmet...

Painters, blacksmiths and wordsmiths: building molues in Lagos.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The coastal Nigerian city of Lagos has received much attention from urban planners, geographers, architects, and journalists for its phenomenal and unchecked growth (Packer 2006, Koolhaas 2000). The population is...

Umor revisited: a diachronic study of sacrosanct principles embedded in the Yakurr Leboku festival.
September 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Drawing on the field of performance studies, this article investigates the nature of the alterations made between 1939 and 2001 to the overall format of the Yakurr Leboku festival, an annual new yam rite performed in the...

Masks, myths, novels, and symbolic ambiguity: dialogues between verbal and visual arts.(research note)(Essay)
September 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Lueji, one of the most remarkable novels by Angolan writer Pepetela, tells the story of Ruwej/Lueji, a central mythical figure of the oral tradition of the origin of kingship among the Aruwund, the Lunda nuclear group...

Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists.
September 22, 2008... Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL January 23-April 29, 2007 Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC May 25-December 8, 2007...

Intersections: World Art, Local Lives.
September 22, 2008... Intersections: World Art, Local Lives Fowler Museum at UCLA ongoing Exceptional objects; effective, attractive, and comfortable design; a compelling and relevant premise supported by cogent, engaging narratives--all are critical...

52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense.
September 22, 2008... 52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense Africa Pavilion: Check List Luanda Pop Venice, Italy June 10-November 21,2007 Each of the last few editions of the Venice Biennale...

Vodou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art.
September 22, 2008... Vodou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art August 27-October 16, 2007 [C]Spaces: Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago Each year, Columbia College Chicago chooses a theme for its "Critical Encounters" project, a college-wide...

The Cutting Edge: West Central African 19th Century Throwing Knives in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Cutting Edge: West Central African 19th Century Throwing Knives in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden By A.M. Schmidt and P. Westerdijk Leiden: National Museum of Ethnology and C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2006. 112 pp., 12...

Photographes d'Afrique de l'Ouest: L'experience yoruba.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Photographes d'Afrique de l'Ouest: L'experience yoruba by Erika Nimis Paris: Editions Karthala, and Ibadan: IFRA-Ibadan. 2005. 291 pp., 30 color photos, bibliography. 25 [euro]. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Felix Diallo,...

Art, Performance, and Ritual in Benin City.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Art, Performance, and Ritual in Benin City by Charles Gore International African Library 37, Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, 2007. 248 pp., 25 color images, 11 b/w, 1 map, glossary, index, biblio, CIP...