Recently added articles from African Arts:
The radiance of the King.(first word)
Sep 22, 2009; Cosentino, Donald ... Along with many other eager fans of both the curator and his subject, I visited the Ernie Wolfe Gallery in West LA shortly after the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama for the opening of "Out of Africa: Obama and McCain." The subheading on the fancy invite filled in a little of the back ...
The phenomenon of recuperation at the Dak'Art Biennale.(dialogue)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Kart, Susan ... In 1992, at the first edition of Dak'Art, Moustapha Dime (Senegal 1952-1998) won the Grand Prize for his sculpture La Dame d la culotte. This object, made from a large tree trunk into which the artist carved only breasts and inserted a large spike topped with a bit of scavenged plastic ...
More on nationalism and Nigerian art.(dialogue)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Ogbechie, Sylvester Okwundu ... The argument between Ugiomoh and Gbadegesin about nationalism in modern Nigerian art highlights the unfortunate situation of an African art history carried out without directly engaging the primary texts that framed such discourses in specific historical contexts. The history and role of ...
Framing the ephemeral.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Purpura, Allyson ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The articles assembled here and in a forthcoming issue of African Arts (vol. 43, no. 1, Spring 2010) explore the theme of ephemeral art, and are based on two panels co-organized by Christine Mullen Kreamer and myself for the Triennial meeting of the Arts ...
The power of ephemera: permanence and decay in protective power objects.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Bessire, Aimee ... Busu Nyumbani has been making and installing empowered objects in the name of his "father of medicine," the practitioner Nyumbani Shilinde, for more than fifteen years (Fig. 1). When he buries wooden pegs filled with empowering substances at a house compound, they are activated to protect ...
The dripping man: art, the ephemeral, and the urban soul.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Malaquais, Dominique ... <Pre> Ma mere--lune se filme et se projette sur un grand rideau blanc envahi par des mouches et des fourmis. Elle eclaire les portraits defigures dans les couloirs et labyrinthes de cette ville follement ligotee. --Herve Yamguen (2005:82) "My ...
Coming together and falling apart: something about brooms and Nigeria.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Doris, David T. ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] There is a popular saying in Nigeria, and if you spend any time on the streets there you will see it often, painted in bright script on the sides of trucks and buses, or affixed with self-sticking letters to the rear windows of cars: NO CONDITION ...
A conservation conundrum: ephemeral art at the National Museum of African Art.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Hornbeck, Stephanie E. ... The permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art includes both tradition-based and contemporary objects, which sometimes employ fugitive materials or media that tender them ephemeral. Among these exists a smaller grouping of objects which are ephemeral by ...
Persona: Masks of Africa--Identities Hidden And Revealed.(exhibition preview)
Sep 22, 2009; Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie ... PERSONA MASKS OF AFRICA--IDENTITIES HIDDEN AND REVEALED APRIL 24, 2009--JANUARY 3, 2010 ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA TERVUREN, BELGIUM A CATALOGUE CO-PUBLISHED BY THE RMCA AND 5 CONTINENTS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND DUTCH ACCOMPANIES ...
Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens.(exhibition preview)
Sep 22, 2009; Grossman, Wendy ... MAN RAY, AFRICAN ART, AND THE MODERNIST LENS OCTOBER 10, 2009-JANUARY 10, 2010 THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, WASHINGTON DC AUGUST 7-OCTOBER 10, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ART MUSEUM, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA OCTOBER 2010-JANUARY 2011 ...
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body Hood Museum.
Sep 22, 2009; Becker, Cynthia ... Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body Hood Museum Dartmouth College April 1-August 10, 2008 The groundbreaking recent exhibition "Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," curated by ...
Studio Cameroon.
Sep 22, 2009; Kringelbach, Helene Neveu ... Studio Cameroon The Everyday Photography of Jacques Touselle November 9, 2007-June 29, 2008 Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford, England The opening of the "Studio Cameroon" exhibition on November 9 2007 was one of the major ...
Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas.
Sep 22, 2009; de Jong, Ferdinand ... Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 26-October 26, 2008 In the summer of 2008 the exhibition "Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas" showed a wide-ranging selection of paintings of blacks made by ...
Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Harney, Elizabeth ... Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly by Sally Price Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007; 224 pages, 10 half-tones, 1 map; $47.50 cloth, $19.00 paper [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For those following the historic debates on ...
Luba.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Nkulu-N'Sengha, Mutombo ... Luba by Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2007. 145 pp., 63 b/w photos, bibliography. $34.95 paper [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Luba art has been popularized through books and exhibitions on African art but ...
Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Schlosser, Julia ... Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007 Edited by Elizabeth Harney Toronto: Wedge Curatorial Projects, 2008. 142 pp., 50 color and 80 b&w photos, index. $60 cloth. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects (1997-2007) presents a ...
Fourteen Films on African Art.(documentaries on West African art)(Sound recording review)
Sep 22, 2009; Klemm, Peri M. ... Fourteen Films on African Art: The Death of an African King with Sarah Adams; A Year in the Life of an African Family: The Bamogo Family of Burkina Faso; Fulani: Art and Life of a Nomadic People; Birds of the Wilderness: The Beauty Competition of the Wodaabe People of Niger; African Art in ...
