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Forty Years of 'African Arts'
Herbert Cole - 02/01/2007
Herbert M. Cole looks at four decades of "African Arts" at UCLA and what the future may have in store for the journal and the field of African art. Without UCLA there would simply be no "African Arts."Celebrate African Arts, now entering into its fortieth year! Launched ambitiously in 1967, pledging a bilingual survey of all the...
Review of the San Francisco Tribal Art Show February 2007
by Howard Nowes - 02/22/2007
Last week I returned from the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts show, produced by Caskey-Lees. Caskey-Lees also produces the NY Tribal Art show at the Park Avenue Armory in May. The west coast weather was warm and the show was top notch. It is probably the premier Tribal art show in the country and the catalog makes a nice reference guide....
Material Journeys: Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945–2000. Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection
Museum Fine Art's Boston - 04/04/2007
Material Journeys: Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945–2000. Selections from the Geneviève McMillan Collection Monday, March 26, 2007 - Sunday, September 2, 2007 MFA SiteFor over sixty years, Mrs. Geneviève McMillan, a Cambridge resident, has collected African and Oceanic art, a lifelong passion that began when she was...
Santa Fe 2007 Photo Ablum
Howad Nowes - 08/16/2007
The Sixth Annual Historic Indian & World Tribal Arts show was August 9th to 12th, 2007. It took place at The College of Santa Fe's Shellaberger Tennis Center at 1600 St Michaels Drive in Santa Fe, NM. It was a vetted show so the objects displayed were all of top quality and the authenticity was assured by a panel of experts.Santa Fe is...
Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa
AXA Gallery Exhibition - 09/21/2007
New York, NY – From September 21, 2006 to January 14, 2007, the AXA Gallery will present Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa, an exhibition that explores the role of the arts in Lega society and their importance to the Lega peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Central to the imagery of the Lega are references...
We had a good NYC Tribal & Textile Arts 2008 Armory Show
HMN - 06/30/2008
New Museum for African Art at 110th @ 5th Ave - Museum Mile
HMN - 10/20/2008
The Museum for African Art and 1280 Fifth Ave
On September 24, 2007 the Museum for African Art and their development partner Brickman broke ground on their mixed use project to include a permanent home for the Museum for African Art and a residential tower above.
Ancient Art and Deflation
Howard Nowes - 01/25/2009
Art objects and Deflation
The dividend of beauty is hard to put a monetary value on. Pride of ownership aside, antiquities and tribal art is an excellent place to invest your money. It seems that the world needs to adjust to a new financial reality. A few months ago, inflation was a top worry, especially the impact of sky-high fuel prices, but now, although consumers can celebrate falling prices at the gas pump and sales on everyday items, an investors' worry is exactly the opposite. Instead of inflation, the problem is deflation, a downward drift in prices that squeeze profits and investor returns to uncomfortable levels.
New York Tribal Art Week 2010 Group Show
AFE Gallery Press Release - 05/12/2010
Fine New Acquisitions in Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian Americas from four top dealer and experts in the field at Art For Eternity, May 10th to the 16th 2010.
Tribal Art Dealers Take Manhattan
New York, NY - 05/13/2010
NEW YORK CITY -- An intrepid tribe of tribal art dealersare standing up to the recession and the cancellation of 2010’s traditional annual New York Tribal Antiques Show at the Armory.
They created and coordinated a NYC Tribal Art Week,
May 11-16, allowing collectors, scholars, dealers, and aficionados to get their needed visual -- and perhaps collecting – fix.
On display and for sale by about 30 dealers around
the Upper East Side and Midtown of New York City, from now through this Sunday, is an arresting array of authentic and stunning artworks of Africa, Oceania, and The Americas, including Pre-Columbian art.
Manhattan’s eight public walk-in tribal art galleries
and three auction houses are all participating, as are 11 local private dealers, five European dealers, and two tribal art dealers from the West Coast. There will be about 20 venues where fine tribal art can be viewed, free and open to the public.
