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I hope you will enjoy reading this African art news.

A small gallery in the Barnes Foundation groups displays paintings by Modigliani, Demuth and Picasso with some African tribal sculpture, European religious carvings, hand-forged metal door handles and an early American ladle.

Permanent Collection

Theater in Tucson inspired by the Barnes foundation.

Review: Art offers new perspective on racism -

Basically, the play is about a bitter battle of words and wills between North, who wants to use his executive power as museum director to make African culture more prominent in a museum famous for its European painters, and Barrow, who insists the museum's exhibits must not be changed just to suit North's agenda.

Barbier-Mueller Geneva Museum African Seats to Spring 2005

Seats constitute one of the most widespread forms of art in Africa . Whether they are destined for everyday use or for exceptional or official occasions, the incredible diversity of seats testifies to the existence of a variety of styles and aesthetic values.

Famous African-Americans: A Collection of African-American and African art comforts and empowers.

The next auction from Mr. Serge Reynes, expert

will be held on March 26, 2005 at 14:30 hrs in Montauban by Maître Feraud

The Artworld Africa History Timeline

"Contemporary African art" in Western Spaces an opinion by Sylvester Ogbechie

The Africa Museum Belgium Confronts its Colonial Past
Generations of Belgian schoolchildren have tramped past glass-topped cases of insects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa , a few miles southeast of Brussels . Now this moldering dowager, created by Belgian King Leopold II around the turn of the last century, is one of the most fascinating museums in Europe. It now features a controversial new exhibition on the Belgian colonial era in

Congo

Vienna Museum of Ethnology - Austrian valuable antiques include Afro-Portuguese ivory carvings which date from Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol 's "art cabinet" at Ambras Castle and which constitute the most ancient pieces of the collection. The museum owns three saltcellars, carved horns and several 15^th and 16^th century spoons, executed in a very fragile technique.

Safari Leader Leaves School His African Art. Does it need evaluation?

Cleveland Refurbished : Completely refurbished, this new gallery showcases the Museum's finest examples of art from Sub-Sharan Africa with 62 objects in wood, terracotta, brass, ivory, cloth and other media on view. The majority of works are wooden masks and figures made in West and Central Africa in the late-19^th to early-20^th centuries.

Indianapolis Museum of Arts :

The newly installed African art galleries are scheduled to open in early 200$6, but you can already enjoy a virtual interactive site: Cycles: African Life Through Art IMA Indianapolis Museum of Art

"Spirit Influences on the Arts of Power" at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

The David and Karina Rilling Collection of African Art” will open Feb. 11 at Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology. The exhibition, which explores how objects connected to the spirit world become essential to governing and decision-making in African societies, will run through May 21, 2005

Selling African Art: Investors and Ancient or Modern Art from Africa

The wealth of Africa resides not just in its gold mines, diamonds and oil. It exists inside its people, especially its visual artists who educate the rest of the globe about both the continent's ancient history and modern life. Seven exhibitions of contemporary work from Africa are on view now until at May 9 at five Houston museums.

African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art in NYC

Through June 5, 2005 the museum has on display a collection of African art on loan from the New Orleans Museum of Art. The theme of the exhibit is the relationship of African art to American jazz, which means it's a perfect fit for Queens , a borough known as the "hometown of jazz." The collection comprises 19^th and early-20^th centuries art from Central and Western Africa with outstanding examples of Yoruba religious sculpture.

Contemporary Fiber Art Movement at Renwick Gallery

American Museum of Natural History - Congo Expedition, May 1909 - November 1915

"In 1909,...Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the Belgian Congo. By the time they sailed home again, five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens."

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