Recently added articles from African Arts:
Africa Remix remix.(first word)
Sep 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 Gallery, Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, ...
The (dis)placement of national art in a transnational artworld.(dialogue)(Essay)
Sep 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 inconsistent, given that the majority of ...
Observing Komo among Tagwa people in Burkina Faso: a Burkinabe art historian's views.(Essay)
Sep 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 under the name "Senufo" do not share the same ...
Buffalo helmets of Tussian and Siemu peoples of Burkina Faso.(Essay)
Sep 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 surmounted by a stylized representation of ...
Painters, blacksmiths and wordsmiths: building molues in Lagos.(Essay)
Sep 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 estimated to have grown to as much as 15 ...
Umor revisited: a diachronic study of sacrosanct principles embedded in the Yakurr Leboku festival.
Sep 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 Middle Cross River region of ...
Masks, myths, novels, and symbolic ambiguity: dialogues between verbal and visual arts.(research note)(Essay)
Sep 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 inhabiting the south of the Democratic ...
Continuity and Change: Three Generations of Ethiopian Artists.
Sep 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.
Sep 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 elements that, if well-balanced, ensure ...
52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense.
Sep 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 has been ...
Vodou Riche: Contemporary Haitian Art.
Sep 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 initiative with extensive ...
The Cutting Edge: West Central African 19th Century Throwing Knives in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.(Book review)
Sep 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 b/w and 83 ...
Photographes d'Afrique de l'Ouest: L'experience yoruba.(Book review)
Sep 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)
Sep 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 record. $105.00 (cloth) ...
"Image ethics" in and about Africa.(first word)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The thoughts to follow are inspired by a number of recent works in art history and visual culture, most of which concern parts of the world other than Africa. The excellent essays of Photography's Other Histories (2003) edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson and the chapters of ...
Da Grace Salome Abra Kwami: 1923-2006.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Grace Kwami was one of the first art specialists in the Gold Coast--now Ghana--an art teacher for more than thirty years, and a practicing artist all her long life. A compulsive maker, she is best remembered for her terracotta figures and in particular for ...
Transforming symbolic identity: wall art and the South African city.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... A vibrantly colored image of women dancing at the beach was enlarged and mounted as a "billboard mural" in the Durban city center in 2003 as part of an innovative public art and advertisement campaign by Cell C, a South African cell phone provider (Fig. 1). Made by the Durban artist S'fiso ...
El Anatsui: transformations.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In March of 2006, while on one of our daily two-hour hikes through the landscape and villages surrounding the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, El Anatsui stopped mid-stride atop a crumpled, dusty, plastic tablecloth lying in the middle of the dirt path. He ...
From mission "Africa rooms": Frans M. Olbrechts's rediscovered African collection.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Since the end of the nineteenth century, Belgium sent thousands of fathers, friars, and nuns to what was then the Belgian Congo. They left their homeland--some never to return--with the mission to spread the gospel and to create local social services in education or health care. When ...
Sufi sheikhs, sheikhas, and saints of the Sudan.(photo essay)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Sudan contains a multitude of Sufi movements, with diverse origins and characteristics. Some groups were formed as far back as the fifteenth century by Sufi masters originating in Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt. The Sudan's social structures ...