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Dear $email,

In one month, I shall be at the Lisboa Fair together with two other dealers with good quality old items:

Fernando Moncada from Lisbon, and Anuschka Menist who recently moved to Brussels.

I hope to meet you there. You will see some real fine items I selected for the Fair only.

Have a nice read,

David Norden

P.S.: If you don't see images, read it online at : http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/feb06-02.htm

New Benin museum is trying to get back sub-Saharan Africa's lost art.

More than 100 years after a British force torched the capital of the old kingdom of Benin and carted off the exquisite Benin bronzes, an international campaign is being launched for a museum to get back some of sub-Saharan Africa's lost artistic heritage.

Exhibit to showcase Picasso's African side

A world-first art exhibition of Pablo Picasso's works and the "magical" African masks and sculptures that influenced his artistic work opens in Johannesburg.

African Ceramics Symposium

In conjunction with the exhibition For Hearth and Altar: from the Keith Achepohl Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

Pyramids in South Africa

They built more pyramids than the Egyptians, invented the world's first "rock" music and were as bloodthirsty as the Aztecs when it came to human sacrifices. These pyramids are neither in South Africa, nor in Egypt. African pyramids outside Egypt are in Sudan.

New museums pages:

UCLA Fowler & Hood Museum
Ethnology Vienna Austria & Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna

SLOTIN AUCTION

Folk and African art featured in collections

Looting African Art

Archeologists broadly support UNESCO's simple equation, cultural property = national patrimony. But ‘The Why Files’ chanced upon a contrary opinion from Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, who proposes a different approach.

Instead of insisting that antiquities remain at home, he prefers that countries regulate them in a way that promotes local museums, that allows some exports to foreign museums, and that earns money for local people at the same time.

Next Auctions

Zemanek auction: 25 February 2006 (catalogue available)
Lempertz: 30 March 2006 in Brussels (catalogue not available yet)
Reynes: 30 April 2006, FONDATION DOSNE-THIERS - MAITRE JOUAN (catalogue not available yet)

Hope you enjoyed this edition,

David Norden