David Norden
www.african-antiques.com
www.buyafricanantiques.com
African
Art Antiques and discussion group.
Dear members ,
I will be very glad to meet those of you who could make it to TAF
Amsterdam next
week, the opening is on Thursday at
6pm . I will show you some fine pieces
from my collection.
Some news this month is related to the important gift of the Tishman collection
by Disney to the Smithsonian. I remember him coming to visit my mother when
I was a little boy buying wonderful things now on display in the Louvre. It was
clear to me that the Tishman collection wasn't where it should be in Disney
World, when I visited it in Epcot last year, the section wasn't visited by
the Disney visitors. It has now found a much better destination.
Also those who are in New York next two weeks should not miss the Ethiopian art
exhibition at PaceWildenstein. Read the interesting article from Holland Cotter,
he explains Ethiopian art was Multicultural Before Multicultural Was Cool and
why you don't hear much about it ?
... It is one of the reason it remains little studied. It requires scholars
equally conversant in European, Islamic and African art - a tall multicultural
order. ... David Norden
PS: And for the bad news, the famous artist and African Art collector Arman died
in New York at the age of 76 last Saturday evening. He incorporated African art
in his artist works, and was also know for his good collection and knowledge; we
will miss him.
Discover also our BAD SITE of the Month, at the end of the newsletter. I
called them, and the Museum conservator claims they don't know African Art and
that it is a private collection showed as guest exhibition! If a Museum don't
know what's real or not, who will ?? Tishhman Disney collection Is Donated to
Smithsonian WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 - In a move that will expand a strapped
museum's resources, the Walt Disney Company donated a 525-piece collection of
mainly West African traditional art on Thursday to the Smithsonian Institution,
with the works to go to its National Museum of African Art.
The art was amassed by Paul Tishman, the late New York real estate developer,
and his wife, Ruth, in the 1960's and 70's and was sold to Disney two decades
ago for $1 million. Experts' estimates of its current value vary wildly, from
$20 million to $50 million.
"So we see this as a godsend gift of objects we would never be able to
afford," she said.
(...) So he decided about six weeks ago, he said, to give the collection
to the Smithsonian because it was a national institution with a building - the
National Museum of African Art - "that could display it right." His
wife,
Jane Breckenridge Eisner, who accompanied him for the announcement, is a member
of the Smithsonian's board of trustees.
African art specialists praised the collection, noting that it would be
difficult
to duplicate today given the rising prices for African art and the
proliferation
of fakes.
"It's the breadth of the collection and the choice pieces from around
Africa that
make this a historically important collection," said Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins,
a California-based art scholar who was the curator of an exhibition of
works
from the collection last year at the
Disney American Heritage Gallery at Epcot
in Orlando, Fla. - the first time Disney displayed any of these pieces.
 Eliot
Elisofon, 1970
A figure of an early 19th-century king from Cameroon.
At this moment in the Louvre
Among the collection's other highlights are an 18th-century
copper alloy from Zimbabwe,
and from Cameroon, a life-size 19th-century statue of a
seated king holding a weapon and the head of an enemy.
"There are
some key pieces in the collection," including the one from
Cameroon, which has been displayed at the Louvre for three years, said Susan
Vogel, an art historian at Columbia University and founder of the Museum of
African Art in New York. Ms. Vogel was a curator for an exhibition of works
from the collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1981.
Ms. Vogel said the collection could be worth $50 million "and probably
more."
(...) Ms. Patton said the additional pieces would allow the
Smithsonian's
African museum to "make a 270-degree turn," mounting traveling
exhibitions
while still maintaining a core exhibition of the quality that visitors
expect to see. The museum will open a small exhibition of the works
immediately, she said, and then mount a full exhibition with a catalog in
February 2007.
read more at http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/tishman.htm
Ethiopian
art It Was Multicultural Before Multicultural Was Cool It Was Multicultural
> Before Multicultural Was Cool
... It is also one reason it remains little studied.
It requires scholars equally conversant in European,
Islamic and African art - a tall multicultural order. ...
...With 50 objects, the show covers centuries of Africa's oldest Christian
culture.
In antiquity, Ethiopia was a mix of African people and Semitic people who had
crossed the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia. According to tradition, the first
Ethiopian emperor, Menelik, son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon,
brought the Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to establish Ethiopia as
the new Israel. ..
read Ethiopian
art http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/ethiopia.htm
Power
Dressing : Men's Fashion and Prestige in Africa Newark Museum
October 19th, 2005 -January 22nd 2006 San Francisco buzzes over new de
Young museum .
Workmen finish up the landscaping outside the new M.H. de Young
Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005.
The new M.H. de Young Memorial Museum won't open to the public
until this weekend, but for months critics have had a field day
finding creative ways to deride the architectural design of San Francisco's fine
arts showplace.
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Even if with a controversial architecture, I think the de Young
will give a new impulse to the
African Art in California, and be a new attraction and extra reason for tourists
to visit
San Francisco
Auctions
Sotheby's
SALE
N08132 11
Nov 05 New York
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/sothebys-new-york.htm
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Zemanek-Muenster
44.
Tribal-Art-Auction
26th
November 2005
Kota
reliquary guardian figure
Prov.: Alexander
M. Bing
New York
http://www.tribal-art-auction.de/index.html
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Serge
Reynes
22/11/2005
Vente Fondation Dosne -Thiers, 75009 Paris,
Métro
Saint Georges Maitre Jouan - - 7/11 au 19/11/2005 de 11h à 19h00
sur RDV
http://www.serge-reynes.org/site.php?num_page=3-2&language=FR
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Neumeisters
Moderne - African Arts from the Walter
Bareiss Collection
Neumeister Münchener Kunstauktionshaus, München, Barerstr. 37
3. - 8.11. Vorbesichtigung
10.11. Auktion
Expert in change: Dr. K.-F. Schädler
http://www.neumeister.com/
Rock
art sites in
remote locations like Mfangano
Island
are attracting visitors, but also at
risk.
Whoever
carved those names seems to have
disregarded
the site's status as a
cultural treasure.
Authorities
responded to the defacement by erecting
warning signs and metal
fencing
around the rock face and declaring it a
monument.
But
that has not stopped numerous copycats from slipping under the
bars
and
scrawling their names for posterity.
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/rock_art.htm
Kuba
mwaash aMbooy masked dancer, Kuba peoples, Muentshi,
Zaire
(now Democratic Republic
of Congo),
Photograph
by Eliot Elisofon, 1972, Image no. EEPA 4032,
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art,
Smithsonian
Institution at Cincinnati
"African
Art African Voices " at Cincinnati
art museum
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/cincinnati_art_museum.htm
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tribes:Ijo
Ijaw
people live
on the coastal delta of the Niger
River,
a
location advantageous to trade.
When European merchants began voyages to Africa in the fifteenth century,
the
Ijaw served as middlemen in the exchange of gold, ivory, and slaves for
European
products.
Australia
Tribal art's not all pig stickers and hornbill skull head-dresses.
At least, that's what the enthusiasts will tell you.
11,000 Years of Aboriginal reel big fish
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/australia.htm
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/reel_big_fish.htm
American
Indians
honor heritage, history
Aboriginal painting
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/american_indians.htm
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/aboriginal_painting.htm
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Metha
collection comes to Montgomery
Traveling the African continent for many years, Dileep and
Martha Mehta of Atlanta
have acquired more than And they have agreed to share some of
the highlights
of their vast collection with Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts visitors.
The exhibition "Africa Celebrates the Art of Living:
From the Collection of Dileep and Martha Mehta" opened runs
through July 2006.
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/metha-montgomery.htm
Africa
screams Evil
in Cinema, Art and Ritual
Museum
der Weltkulturen Schaumainkai 29-37 60594 Frankfurt am Main
The
exhibition features nearly 250 works from the 20th century, mainly from
Western
Africa (Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon) as well as from South Africa,
creating
a connection between the two African worlds which exist
today in our minds:
war, corruption
and catastrophe on the one hand and music, art and culture on the other.
Not suitable for
people younger than 16 !!
http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/africa_screams.htm
BAD
SITE OF THE MONTH !
Here
is the website of a newly published book about the private collection on Gabun
objects near Heidelberg:
www.gabon-art.com
Voelkerkundemuseum
Heidelberg
v.P.St.
Hauptstr. 235 (Palais Weimar)
69117 Heidelberg
Incredible
that a Völkerkundemuseum museum can show this even as a guest
show,
publish
and exhibit a collection without any provenance.
They
did not research, did not ask anybody and now they surprised the
world....
So
now they are punished with a collection of copies (not even fakes) and
imaginary material.
Good
photography, and if you ever buy the book, you know immediately what not to buy
for "Gabon Art" .
"Dem
Auge des Ästheten" is not enough when you collect African art !
And don't forget, join
us at the Tribal art Fair
Amsterdam 27, 28,29,30 October 2005
Location: De Duif Prinsengracht 756 Amsterdam
The Tribal Art Fair in Amsterdam is organized by two Amsterdam dealers
Finette Lemaire and Willem Zwiep.
There will be 16 mainly Dutch dealers who will show Tribal Art
from Africa,
Oceania and Asia. The fair is held in an impressive 18th century church and
the contradiction of Tribal Art in the religious iconography makes this
event very special.
The
opening is next thursday at 6 p.m.
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