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Treasures from
the far-off shores of the Guinea Coast and other parts of Africa have recently
washed up at the Yale University Art Gallery.
At the revivified Louis Kahn building, a new permanent
gallery devoted to the arts of Africa opens, putting Yale
African Art at the head of the class among university art museums.
Cameroon Art at QCC New exhibition Queensborough
Community College unveiled a new art exhibit titled "A
Cameroon World," featuring a wide array of art and artifacts from
the small central African country.
The
Wabash College Art Department is pleased to
present "The Wabash College Eiteljorg Collection of African Art: Art,
Life, and Spirit in Africa"
Harn Museum hosts variety of
African art
read also :African Woman
"Images of Women in African Traditional Arts" Exhibit to Open on Jan.
12 2007
related: University
of Virginia Art Museum
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UCLA
Fowler Museum presents
"Spanning centuries of multicultural creativity, this
exhibition is the kind of art experience that might restore your faith in the
sad old human comedy. How nice that the installation is on long-term view."
The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2006
The numerous new acquisitions that will be on view throughout the Gallery
include selections from one of the largest and most significant single gifts of
art in the Gallery’s history—the exceptional Charles B. Benenson collection
of African art. read Kahn Yale opening
Sacred
African tribal objects on display
at California
State University, Sacramento
African
tribal Mask
Spurlock
Museum Illinois Where Animals Dance is a discussion of contemporary
masquerading traditions of West Africa, featuring masks and related shrine
artifacts focusing on the place of these traditions in belief, social structure,
and daily life. The ethnicities being discussed include Bamana, Baga, Nuna,
Toma, and Bobo. The exhibit also includes discussion of Ci-Wara complex, age
sets, secret societies, and initiation practices.
ends 03/04/07
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Bill Van Siclen:
African exhibit illuminates depths below the surface
Hofstra Museum
Hempstead, New York, African Art donation from Sol Lewitt.
Chambers
UCO Art exhibit highlights ancient African culture
Encased behind glass walls on the fourth floor of the Max Chambers Library
(Edmond, Oklahoma) stands an African art exhibit that even the Smithsonian
covets...
At the Cantor Arts
Center at Stanford University the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
gallery is arranged by region: the Western Sudan, the Guinea Coast, the
Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, and the Southern Savanna. The curator is
Manuel A. Jordan.
related: African History -
Congo expedition
UMFA-Arts of a Continent
African art
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts offers a stuning primitive-art exhibition
Harn Museum Florida
"Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal
Adornment" on display through June 2006. Harn Museum of Art.
UMMA-World class African art collection
donated to U-M Museum of Art Queensborough
Community College African Art highlights from the Gallery's Permanent
Collection
DATE January 24, 2005 - January 31, 2006
Opening of the permanent collection of African Art, a selection of traditional
sculptures in various media from West Africa.
African-Headstones-USA JMU
professor cites headstones in national forest in examining whether traditions
survived intact. The engravings are from the Nsibidi sign system of Igbo
Art-out-of-Africa While
other boys wanted to become fire fighters or astronauts, Lamp imagined himself
traveling to the exciting and romanticized continent of which his missionary
high school teachers spoke. BMA-african-art-curator
BMA names Ky. professor to African art curator post Karen Milbourne, an
assistant professor of African art history at the University of Kentucky
who has organized exhibitions on the healing powers of African art and on
the political aspects of African-art studies, will step into her new post
at the BMA Nov. 15.
Yale University GALLERY expands
African Art with Mr.Lamp as curator
Lowe-art-Miami
Loyola New-Orleans
Michigan Museum of Art
Neuberger-New-York
New Jersey
Lamp at Yale : Frederick Lamp Named First
Curator of African Art at Yale Art Gallery
Art-out-of-Africa While
other boys wanted to become fire fighters or astronauts, Lamp imagined himself
traveling to the exciting and romanticized continent of which his missionary
high school teachers spoke.
Queens-NY
Belger Arts Kansas
Virginia-University-Museum
Wisconsin-Elvehjem African art is
Elvehjem 'niche' show, but lack of space is problem
African Studies with links to all the African
studies centers
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September 23, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - The refurbished Emison Art Center
will serve as a home for the University's Shidzuo Iikubo Museum and its Arthur
E. Klauser Asian and World Community Collection, a gallery for the
Vandiver-Haimann Collection of African Art, curated exhibits from DePauw's
permanent art collection, and touring exhibits and special exhibits from the
Indiana Museum of Art, Indiana State Museum, Indiana Historical Society and
other organizations. The Office of Media Relations is located at: Charter House,
300 E. Seminary St. Phone: (765) 658-4626
Friends of Ethnic Art was founded in
1974 to provide a focus in the San Fransisco Bay Area for interest in the
traditional arts of the Americas, Africa and Oceania. It is a non-profit,
educational, open-membership organization that offers slide lectures and other
programs to expand knowledge and public awareness of human expression in these
traditional native arts.
University Museums USA:
UMMA-Michigan-congo Basin: Masterworks
of African Art along the Congo River Basin. Guest curated by Michael
Kan, is the first of three exhibitions devoted to exploring several different
regions of the African continent.
Bareiss Family
african art collection
Yale : GALLERY expands African Art
Ebony Museum Oakland
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