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 05 Jan 2010 @ 10:28 PM 
 

Through African Eyes: The European in African Art

 

Stool (75.1-S1.jpg) Upcoming USA exhibition opens on April 11, 2009, “Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present.”  Those used to European images of Africans — often condescending or downright racist, depending on the era — will enjoy the sometimes ironic results when the mirror is turned from colonized to colonizers. The show closes Aug. 8 2009

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 02 Sep 2009 @ 9:20 PM 
 

AMAM African Sculpture Exhibition

 

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Engaging Spirits, Empowering Man: Sculpture of Central and West Africa September 1-December 23, 2009
 

 

 
 
 

 

The dynamic sculptural works exhibited here ––from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and other African countries––were chosen from a private collection to supplement the AMAM’s permanent collection of African art, which has a strong emphasis on West African art of the Yoruba peoples.

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 22 Jul 2009 @ 10:23 AM 
 

African Art Power

 

The power of African art

Culture hero: This figure from Angola is said to represent a character called Chibinda Ilunga. (Courtesy Photo)

SAN FRANCISCO — “Fetish” — an object embodying magical powers — is neither politically nor factually correct, says curator Constantine Petridis, but that’s what they were called in the West before.

Now, these looming, fantastical wooden sculptures in the de Young Museum’s “Art and Power in the Central African Savanna” are known as “power objects.”

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 13 Jun 2009 @ 7:29 AM 
 

Barbier-Mueller at the Met

 

 Barbier-Mueller at the Met

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June 11, 2009

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Let’s start with the good news: “African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy Barbier-Mueller African Art Metopolitan Museum photoof Collecting,” running through September 27 at the Met, is a show well worth seeing. The exhibition features 36 works—all masterpieces—from one of the world’s great private art collections. Begun by Josef Mueller (1887-1974) in the 1920’s, and continued by his son-in-law Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, the collection was placed on permanent display in 1977. The works on view range across a wide swath of Africa and the South Pacific, and they brilliantly demonstrate the virtuosity and formal inventiveness of individual creative talents.

Now for the not-so-good news: from the title to the installation to the catalog photography, the exhibition raises issues, or at least fails to resolve concerns, which make it difficult to absorb the magnitude of the works presented. 

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 13 Apr 2009 @ 2:55 PM 
 

NMFA museum pieces

 

The collection at the National Museum of African Art embraces diverse artistic expressions found throughout Africa — some ancient and some from contemporary times.

Here are some outstanding examples of

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 12 Mar 2009 @ 4:27 PM 
 

Art and Power in the Central African Savanna

 

Unusual African art exhibit at CMA

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CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has originated an unusual exhibit — Art and Power in the Central African Savanna — that will be on display through May 31 before it goes on tour to other places in the country. See a slide show and read more about those 60 central African sculptures whose original purpose was to mediate between the human and spirit worlds.

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