Photo provided by Kristina Van Dyke

Former Menil curator Kristina Van Dyke is settling into her new role as director of the Pulitzer Foundation; in an interview with Nancy Fowler of the St. Louis Beacon, she tells a little about her specialization in African art, her plans for the upcoming “Love and Africa” show she was working on at the Menil with Bisi Silva, the director for the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos, which will open here in Houston, in St. Louis, and in Lagos next fall. When pushed about the Pulitzer’s next ten years, the just-off-the-plane director was vague, saying that it will be “increasingly refined but will remain highly experimental.”

In this interview Kristina Van Dyke speaks about her new project “Love and Africa.”

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29 July 2011 

A new report sponsored by the non-profit dealer association CINOA finds that fairs and online business are poised to become the main source of revenue for dealers in the art and antiques trade. Cinoa’s latest report illustrates that the activity of galleries is increasingly taking place online and at major fairs. E-retail is expected to surpass traditional offline sales by 2020.

Dr. Clare McAndrew’s CINOA study reports some details and market numbers:

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Dear African Art Club friends,

It seems everyone is waking up from the winter sleep, and plenty of activity is starting in the African Art field.

Trends are that people run there business from behind closed doors and that less galleries are opening.

It is because people have less time to go to shops and like to do more business online,

also people enjoy meeting and buying more during social events like fairs and auctions.

I predict also that more and more people will start to do business online using Facebook, since it is so easy to create a photo album and to have friends to comment. It also add social proof, and people will tell if they like you.

Also a new trend is that dealers and collector join associations and are getting more active, like in Italy where a not to miss new exhibition shows objects from private collectors ” Africa delle meraviglie’s.”

For those of you who want more insiders news and want to support the newsletter, please join the African Art Club at a never seen low price.

To celebrate spring and FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY I am inviting you david@african-antiques.com to become a member for the Super low price of 4.77 € each month, and this instead of the normal price of 14,77€. Don’t miss this chance since this offer is closing in a few days.

Click here for the africanartclub.com spring offer

If you are already a member, you may choose to cancel you previous membership before joining at the low rate or ask for support if you need to (just answer this email). If you are a yearly member don’t cancel, since you are entitled to a one hour mentoring consultation with me using Skype (nordend) and if you allow me I will record it and use it in the Club and do Some promotion for your collection, Send me an email so that we can make an appointment.

Three steps process to benefit this offer:

“Yes David this is cool! I agree to become a member of your Club, and bring my African Art collection on a higher level.”

CLICK THIS SECRET LINK BELOW TO AGREE TO JOIN- If it disappeared, sorry, but you’re to late:

http://africanartclub.com/join/spring-offer/

I reserve myself the right to remove this page at any moment and will do this before April 10, 2011.

Once inside just enter a desired login and password, don’t forget to write it down to be able to login into the

http://www.AfricanArtClub.com

I posted a tutorial for the site at :

http://africanartclub.com/join/login-faq/

Once you joined send me an email . Just hit reply to confirm and tell me a bit more about your collection.

Hope you’ll enjoy this edition,

David Norden

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African Arts in Italian collections

If you have time go see this important event in Genova in Italy. It is called:

Africa delle meraviglie – Arti africane nelle collezioni italiane

Edited by Ivan Bargna and Giovanna Parodi da Passano with the collaboration of Marc Augé, the exhibition presents an important selection of traditional African works of art of great aesthetic and cultural value from Italian collections.

You can see some videos and photos on the following page:

http://www.african-arts.info/african_arts_in_italian_collections.htm

A lifelong love of tribal masks & African art Peabody researcher, former faculty, 90, still studying tribal masks !

http://african-arts.info/tribal_masks.htm

———-”classified ads”———–

- David Norden a dealer in African Art since 1992 is showing some of his recent acquisitions on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40872&id=115188705202701&l=76c3aee2ce

Do not hesitate to comment, like or to share with your friends on your wall.

- Do you Like the new “Buy African Antiques” fan page?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Buy-African-Antiques/115188705202701

- Frédéric Lepeltier is a talented painter living in France, who loves drawing African Art:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=40872&id=115188705202701&saved#!/album.php?id=757621309&aid=168186

-As you know from time to time I am sending solo mail-out advertisements,

like the ones you receive from Zemanek or Serge Reynes auctions and fair announcements.

- You can also send your message to 5,000 lovers of African Art and 800 fans on Facebook and growing. Cost 350 euros

To propose a project ask for info

mailto:david.norden@telenet.be?(African-Antiques)solo-mail-out

- INTRODUCING a cheaper “classified ads” section perfect for private collectors who want to sell objects.

this is a short announcement mailed in the regular newsletter (just like this one, maximum 4 lines) to 5,000 african art collectors.

Cost 50 euros. To propose a project pay 50 € in advance with Paypal to david.norden@telenet.be and email us or call +32 3 227.35.40

To ask for info mailto:david.norden@telenet.be?(African-Antiques)Classified——————End Classified Ads——————

Tribal Art Prices Magical Pieces, Sensible Prices

Build a museum-quality collection for under $100,000.

Nearly 50 years ago, a young, bespectacled man named Michael Rockefeller went looking for tribal artefacts in the swampy coastlands of New Guinea.

He was never seen again. He may have been attacked by sharks; he may have drowned; he may have encountered cannibals or head hunters….

http://www.african-arts.info/tribal_art_prices.htm NOTE: Tips to start collecting African Art and Provenance Do’s and Don’ts

Not only the provenance but being able to recognise styles, and also patina’s is becoming a daunting task for newbies collectors,

but to do so without failing you have to see exhibitions and vetted fairs

to be able to recognise what you have seen previously that is known genuine pieces…

read and discuss provenance at:

http://www.facebook.com/notes/david-norden/tips-to-start-collecting-african-art-andprovenancedos-and-donts/164185116968827

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Last but not least…

A few recently added pieces:

A fine Tschokwe snuffbox

An American collector collected it in situ at the end of the 1960′s with the advice of Mr. Charly Henau, this fine Tschokwe snuffbox shows also some Bena-Lulua influence. Picture are real size 1:1

http://buyafricanantiques.com/tschokwe_snuffbox.htm

A Kifwebe mask from Nicolas De Kun

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/kifwebe_mask.htm

Pende sickness masks:

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/pende_sickness_mask1.htm

Dan Toma mask, Guinea:

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/dan_toma_mask.htm

Lega Mask from Dintenfass collection, 22 cm high

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/lega_mask_dintenfass.htm

A janus Chamba statue

Coming from John’s Dintenfass collection. 33 cm.

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/chamba.htm

I had many request to find more of the miniatures of the Josef Herman collection.

You can choose one of my recent acquisitions for only 1,000€ . But the low price is because they are sold without a stand:

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/josef_herman_miniatures1.htm

Metoko Lengola figure – quite seldom

http://www.buyafricanantiques.com/metoko-lengola.htm

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Hope you enjoyed this edition,

David Norden

Sint Katelijnevest 27

B-2000 Antwerpen

Belgium

Tel.:+32 (0)3.227.35.40

P.S.1.: CLICK THIS SECRET LINK BELOW TO AGREE TO JOIN the African Art Club- If it dissapeared, sorry, but you’re to late:

http://africanartclub.com/join/spring-offer/

P.S.2:I need someone to volunteer to correct my next newsletters for grammar etc… since English isn’t my mother’s language.

I can’t pay for this but of course can offer some mentoring in exchange.

I also am willing to accept guest bloggers for the http://africanartclub.com/ . Let me know if you want to become one and have some interesting content to share or mybe an old course related to the African Arts you have rights to distribute.

Tomorrow a little auction in France has some 221 interesting objects – Baulé’s from the ivory coast mainly. Low estimates and quite good quality for these prices. 15 January 2:30 p.m. Click here to see the catalogue link etc… …

For those of you who paid me 100 € with a credit card last year for the African Art Club subscription, it is time to renew your subscription, it would be easier for me if you use the paypal system ( that also accept credit card payments)
If you enjoy my updates and are on a monthly payment, why not switch to the yearly payment, it is much cheaper. You should do it before I raise my prices once again. 

>>Just click here to enter a desired login and password

Many of you will be in Brussels next week for the winter Bruneaf 19-23 January and the Brafa Fair 21-30 January 2011.I will not show my pieces in Brussels, but simply be in my Shop in Antwerp for conviviality.

You can meet me in Brussels or Antwerp by appointment, or come say hello without appointment for a friendly drink on Sunday January 23 between 3 and 7 P.M. on the Katelijnevest 27. B2000 Antwerpen, ans see some of my recent acquisitions like the XIXth century Lega mask coming from the John Dintenfass collection or an impressive Big 90cm high Songye covered with skin, bells, horns and cupper coming from a private Dutch collection.Since I will have to travel a few times between Brussels and Antwerp, if you plan to visit me before Sunday the 23rd just call +32 3 227.35.40.

David Norden

Sint Katelijnevest 27  B-2000 Antwerpen Belgium Tel.: +32 (0)3.227.35.40

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By Evelyn Choo | Posted: 08 December 2010

Fleuve Congo François Neyt, Sté…

SINGAPORE : A major African art exhibition is making its international debut in Southeast Asia.

And although these two continents are oceans apart, curators want to show there are more similarities than you think.

The sculpture of a kneeling mother with a child on her back would have been kept in cemeteries to guard the dead.

Upon closer look, you will notice that her eyes are inlaid with glass – believed to enable her to see the spiritual world.

Such pieces reflect the societal and spiritual values upheld by the Bantu-speaking people.

“It’s very important. Why? Because they honoured the deceased persons and they pray to them to protect the village and all the persons around them,” explained Francois Neyt, executive curator of Congo River: Arts of Central Africa.

If you are from a Southeast Asian country, chances are you would’ve heard this theme before. Find a link to a video of the exhibition below or read more about fleuve congo.

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Arts Africains un Monde de Différences

David Norden
African Antiques
Mail David Norden 

Sint-katelijnevest 27 B2000 ANTWERPEN-Belgium (map)

Tel +32 3 227 35 40 Galerie De Buci  Paris 2010

73, rue De Seine.

Vernissage le mardi 30 Novembre à partir de 19 heures

30 Nov.-2010 > 15 Jan.2011

ouvert du mardi au samedi

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Tour to coincide with Gaddafi’s summit hits problems

Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Brussels is worried about sending its collection of wooden sculptures to Africa

Senegal artist Gora Mbengue’s “Woman in Red” may still travel, while wooden objects like this Yoruban sculpture could be at risk (Photos: MRAC Tervuren)

brussels. A planned tour of a major exhibition of African art to Libya, currently on show in Belgium, is now under threat. Masterminded by Tanzania-born British architect David Adjaye, the show was due to open in Tripoli for the European-African summit in November, hosted by Colonel Gaddafi.

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Ivory sculpture in Congo, part 1.

This is THE BOOK if you collect or like African Art Ivory’s. Limited editionof 999. Hard cover, A4 format, 280 pages, +/- 1000 color illustrations. Many articles from ivory experts in English, French, and Dutch. I will be on sale in Brussels during the Bruneaf at Galerie Congo, 2 Impasse Saint-Jacques, during the Lega exhibition. Price around 250€.

Never has a book dealt specifically with the ritual use of antique ivory sculptures in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – until now.

Click the image to enlarge the cover of  White gold, black hands: ivory sculpture in Congo

Ivory is a touchy subject. People seem reluctant to publicize this appealing medium, fearing that its glorification might lead to the  killing of elephants.

The authors are aware of today’s poaching and illegal trade in African elephant tusks and address the problem directly.

The book opens with an essay by “Renaissance man” Charles Meur, who explains what ivory is and identifies the different animals that produce it. His superb drawings and incisive texts show where elephants were previously living and who their ancestors were.

Congo basin «Ritual Art» specialist Marc Leo Felix details the production and use of traditional ivory sculpture in the Kongo Kingdom between the 16th and 20th centuries.

Musicologist Dr. Ignace De Keyser of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Tervuren, Belgium, writes about an astonishing northern Kongo ivory trumpet inspired by an ancient European model.

Dr. Nichole N. Bridges of the Baltimore Museum of Art (USA) describes the 19th century production, along the Loango Coast, of exquisitely sculpted ivory tusks for a newly arrived European clientele.

Some thousand stunning color photographs, drawings, graphs and maps illustrate the four authors’ essays.

I can send you the book for 290€ all costs included:

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Some information about one of the ivory’s illustrated in the book that will be sold at auction in Paris in June : ...

• welcome to the new members
• Brafa Fair african art dealers
• auction in Tours
•  little auction on Ebay with quality items from the Josef Herman collection.

Check also the just created new museums page and the listing with african art museums in france

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