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  1. I read Sidney Kasfir's essay "Katarikawe Dreaming: Notes on a Retrospective" (African...
  2. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Kilengi Africa...
  3. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., in associa...
  4. Le Musee Cannibale Edited by Marc-Olivier Gonseth, Jacques Hainard, and Roland Kaehr ...
  5. This exhibition, curated by Perkins Foss, opens at the Museum for African Art, Long I...
  6. In cities throughout the world, one identifies the same people with the same preoccup...
  7. Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Masks of West ...
  8. The Ekperi speak an Edo language and trace their origins to the Edo kingdom of Benin ...
  9. The African art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts did not emerge as a hallm...
  10. Baselitz Die Afrika-Sammlung K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf, Germ...
  11. Africa Capolavori da un continente Galleria di Arte Moderna Turin, Italy October 2,...
  12. In the Fullness of Time Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections James ...
  13. Much discussion of African art has dealt with where it fits into the bigger picture. ...
  14. In 1977 Thomas Matthews wrote: "Mural painting in South Africa is a domestic art, ide...
  15. "... a fortunate blend of myth and history, penetrates even deeper into that area of ...
  16. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center Long Island City, New York February 10-May 5, 2002 "...
  17. The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers Tenafly, New Jersey October 14, 2001-Mar...
  18. Produced and directed by Claudine Pommier Executive Producer Cheikh Tidiane N'diaye ...
  19. African art today is in the midst of a brilliant renaissance, heralded in exhibitions...
  20. Directed by Neal W. Sobania and Raymond A. Silverman 1/2" VHS videocassette, color,...
  21. Barry Hallen Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2000. 201 pp.,...
  22. Ezio Bassani British Museum Press, London, 2001. xxxix + 328 pp., 615 b/w photos, C...
  23. Alisa LaGamma The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000. 80 pp., 5 b/w & 50 co...
  24. At a time when African-art historians are increasingly addressing contemporary Africa...
  25. The basic text on Kongo musical instruments is Bertil Soderberg's thesis (1956), whic...
  26. Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal David Philip Publishers, Clarement, South Africa, 1...
  27. On a rainy afternoon in November 2001, I visited the new locale of the Musee Dapper a...
  28. Leopold Sedar Senghor lived a remarkable life that spanned nearly the entire twentiet...
  29. "Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa" is a collaborative effort b...
  30. While living as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dogon villages of Dologou and Kedialy ...
  31. Bernard Gardi Museum der Kulturen Basel and Editions Christoph Merian, Basel, 2000....
  32. National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. November 19,...
  33. The Spring and Summer 2003 issues of African Arts will be a tribute to the African-ar...
  34. New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, New York June 2-September 16, 2001 Only th...
  35. A Mano mask from the Dan peoples of Liberia was stolen from a private collection in S...
  36. NSA Gallery Glenwood, Durban, South Africa August 7, 2001-September 8, 2001 South A...
  37. Information subject to change...
  38. Gay Robin Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000. 272 pp., 188 b/w & 122 ...
  39. Edited by John Pemberton III Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., and L...
  40. Among the Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria, the Ogboni society (called Osugbo i...
  41. There have been few displays in Austria of contemporary African art in the last decad...
  42. Asafo companies originated several centuries ago among the Akan peoples of southern G...
  43. Question 4: I think the best one can hope for is to work in multiple arenas so that t...
  44. It's so hard to be a saint in the city. Bruce Springsteen "A Saint in the City" p...
  45. Over the last decades the acquisition policies of the African Department of this muse...
  46. Bilder aus Traumen/Dreaming in Pictures: Jak Katarikawe was written for an exhibition...
  47. The questions raised by Sidney Kasfir are of critical importance to the museum field,...
  48. I wish to clarify some information concerning the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam in Bennett...
  49. In October 2002 the University of Iowa hosted an international conference that demons...
  50. Information subject to change western states (by closing date) NSILA--EL CAMINO ...
  51. Some Questions for Curators The following exchange attempts to document the rapidly...
  52. MAKONDE Jesper Kirknaes and Jorn Korn Rhodos, Copenhagen, 1999. 156 pp., 174 & 5 colo...
  53. Edited by Manuel Jordan Prestel-Verlag, Munich, London, and New York, 1998. 192 pp., ...
  54. Catherine M. Cole Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001. 196 pp., 24 b/w photos...
  55. The Art Institute of Chicago is a large and encyclopedic museum where mine is the onl...
  56. The artistic interactions between the various peoples of the Niger Delta and their Ig...
  57. Like others who do research in Africa, I frequented local and regional markets during...
  58. Sometimes a passion for collecting springs from mundane circumstance. For Toby and Ba...
  59. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has become a fixture in the city since it r...
  60. Gelede-marionetten van de Anago-Yoruba April 1-December 31, 2001 Afrika Museum Berg...
  61. Paula Girshick Ben-Amos Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 199...
  62. Ghanaian Popular Paintings by Mark Anthony Belger Arts Center University of Missour...
  63. Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York 1999. North A...
  64. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Chicago, Illinois March 9-May 26, 2...
  65. David Coulson and Alec Campbell Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2001. 224 pp., 256 pp., ...
  66. Hans Witte Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands, 2001. Text in Dutch and Eng...
  67. ACASA symposium see Triennial Symposium on African Art Africa Museum, Tervuren see ...
  68. The universal stillness of the scene was very imposing; unbroken as it was by any sou...
  69. The Triennial Symposium on African Art, organized by the Arts Council of the African ...
  70. The comfort of knowing which side of the fence you are is being constantly thrown. ...
  71. The fact that "the boundaries of the field are being revised" is the first really sig...
  72. One of the reasons for holding the Triennial in the Virgin Islands was that we were a...
  73. ARTS OF AFRICA, ASIA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS Musee du Louvre, Pavillon des Sessi...
  74. Everyone who actively follows the fortunes of African art in either academic settings...
  75. CLOTHING AND IDENTITY Gertrude Posel Gallery University of the Witwatersrand Johann...
  76. In analyzing the version of Spiritism practiced in New Orleans, most authors have neg...
  77. TENGENENGE Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Productions, Aabenraa, Den...
  78. Judith Bettelheim raises some interesting questions in response to my article on the ...
  79. PALACE SCULPTURES OF ABOMEY History Told on Walls Francesca Pique and Leslie H. Rai...
  80. NICHOLAS MUKOMBERANWA Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Productions, Aa...
  81. READING THE CONTEMPORARY African Art from Theory to the Marketplace Edited by Olu O...
  82. TALKING WITH STONES Joram Mariga Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Prod...
  83. After being housed for nearly thirty years in the Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gar...
  84. Attending the Triennial always reminds me of the Igbo proverb about masquerades: you ...
  85. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! We don't have no water, let the whole thing ...
  86. In the fall of 2000 Yinka Shonibare had a solo show at Camden Art Centre, an installa...
  87. WRAPPED IN PRIDE Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity A Curriculum Resource U...
  88. Unless you know the road you have come down, you cannot know where you are going. -...
  89. One of Marc Ginzberg's first purchases of African art was a snuff bottle. Having grow...
  90. Baba Wague Diakite is an artist who defies categorization--a fact that reveals as muc...
  91. THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF THE AMISTAD REBELLION Masks of the Sacred Bush The Peabody Museu...
  92. ART AND ORACLE Spirit Voices of Africa The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New Y...
  93. What on earth could nineteenth-century Luba depictions of the female body have in com...
  94. AFRICAN VOICES National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
  95. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren, Belgium November 24, 2000-June 24, 2001 ...
  96. Contemporary African Art Gallery New York, New York April 18-October 15, 2001 Art e...
  97. Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain May 30-September 11, 20...
  98. Edited by Annette Czekelius and Michael Thoss Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Munich, 2...
  99. Hope B. Werness The Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, 2000. 360 p...
  100. Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery Winnipeg, Canada January 5-March 3, 2001 In the w...
  101. Roy Sieber is forever: expert eye, copious beard, reassuring arm around a worried gra...
  102. The Museum for African Art, New York, and the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, have mounted r...
  103. Beverly B. Mack and Jean Boyd Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indianapolis, 20...
  104. The contemporary Vodun arts of the city of Ouidah in the Republic of Benin are a test...
  105. Kerry James Marshall, Terrie Sultan, and Arthur Jaffa Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000...
  106. In 1999 the National Museum of African Art acquired an important set of Nkanu wall pa...
  107. We recently had the pleasure of co-curating the exhibition "Authentic/Ex-Centric: Afr...
  108. Start at the beginning and see how far you can go, thinking of good answers from you...
  109. Cal saved his coins for a month. When he counted them, he found that he had exactly ...
  110. All over the Serengeti, the lions were in trouble. Tourists in a hot-air balloo...
  111. I play golf with my dad. Every time I hit a bad shot, I throw my golf club on the gr...
  112. If you had a room with no air, then you poured in barrels of nitrogen and oxygen, co...
  113. Twinkletoes My teacher calls me Twinkletoes. Why? Nobody really knows. ...
  114. * Which show winter? Which show summer? * What changes occur each season where ...
  115. When Tiger walked openly through the jungle, he was Fear. The deer fled in alar...
  116. Can a bunch of numbers have special powers? Many ancient people believed so. Groups ...
  117. Michael: "Do they have the Fourth of July in England?" Mom: "Yes...
  118. Eleven-year-old Jack London stared in awe at the towering masts of the Arctic whaler...
  119. Catherine trudged through the puppany plants, pushing apart the spaghetti-like tendr...
  120. I once heard in a song that a "Brontosaurus" is an Apatosaurus with the wr...
  121. New Year's celebrations around the world include foods that many people believe will...
  122. Feelings When you are calm you are like a flowing stream. When you are ...
  123. Did you know that money can grow? I don't mean that if you plant a dollar bill ...
  124. Which of these two satellites will complete an orbit around Earth first? Satel...
  125. To peel an apple or to peel a banana? To stand on one foot or to stand on your ...
  126. Have you ever read a book you couldn't put down? Have you ever read a story so good ...
  127. Remove the paper cover from a plastic straw by sliding it down until it is crumpled ...
  128. 1. What's the difference between a cat and a comma? Aubrey Duncan, California ...
  129. How many galaxies do astronomers know of? Sania Tharani, Age 10 Georgia ...
  130. Sea gulls are part of the ocean's cleanup crew. They eat bits and pieces of dead fis...
  131. If these animals ran a race of about one hundred meters, which do you think would wi...
  132. Once in a faraway land where written words did not exist, a wizard was marveling at ...
  133. 1. Paint the bottom half of a small gift box or cover it with green construction pap...
  134. * Which players are teammates? How can you tell? What skills are needed to play bask...
  135. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this big picture find the kite, toothbrush, pumpkin, ...
  136. Black dog, white dog, Yellow dog, brown. Dog in the country, Dog in the town. Big do...
  137. My name is Mary-Jo, but you can call me Jo. Everyone does except Aunt Jane. Sometime...
  138. 1. With an adult's help, poke a hole in the bottom center of two identical clear-pla...
  139. My dog, Tommy, makes me happy. We play outside together every day. He...
  140. "To conclude, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the best book I've read in ...
  141. Being a Raindrop Being a raindrop felt Like I was dancing On a moonligh...
  142. It was feeding time at the farm. Jake grabbed the basket of food and ran outside. Gr...
  143. The Tea Party I sat myself down for a cup of tea and saw Miss Mouse ...
  144. Alphonso is getting an early start on spring cleaning. In the bottom of his closet, ...
  145. It's All About Bugs Their little feet streaking across the dirt and the...
  146. Cuddles is on the job! Her owner, Dan Shaw, grips the handle of her harness. He says...
  147. My Grandpa My grandpa is honest, Trustworthy, and fair. He likes to be ...
  148. 1. Cut two pieces of construction paper, felt, or craft foam into identical bird sha...
  149. Growing up in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, I was a member of Cub Scout Pack 66. We did man...
  150. Upon Our Faces If only we could capture sunshine And wear it around our nec...
  151. Every day I ride home from school in my mom's car. I have twin sisters who are alway...
  152. How do goose bumps form? Jamie Ammons, Age 10 Florida Goose bumps a...
  153. "Ha, ha! You lost!" "Don't feel bad. You'll win another time.&qu...
  154. 1. Cut a wide strip of felt to fit around your wrist Use a hole punch to make a hole...
  155. My best friend asked me, "Do I sing pretty?" I didn't want to hurt her fee...
  156. No one wanted to go outside. "What can we do today?" "Let'...
  157. Geese travel south-- Honk honk, "Out of the way," honk honk. Deer...
  158. Lost Shoes When you're searching For lost shoes, And you're frantic ...
  159. 1. To make the pins, glue white paper around six paper-towel tubes. Glue one strip o...
  160. COUNTRY CURRENCY [pounds sterling]STG ALGERIA ...
  161. In an election widely expected to expose the cracks in the ruling party's fortress-li...
  162. Six political parties will contest the Ghanaian elections but the major battle will b...
  163. Announcing the property formalisation programme, Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa ...
  164. Economies heavily dependent upon oil exports to generate government revenues face a c...
  165. Much has been made of the success or otherwise of economic reform in many African sta...
  166. Gold, phosphate, kaolin, salt and limestone are all currently being mined in Mali, bu...
  167. With legislative and presidential elections now done and dusted, Tunisia can focus on...
  168. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak seems to be clearing the way for a successor in the n...
  169. Africa loves its football and its stunning achievements in the World Cup championship...
  170. I read the November 2004 issue of African Business with extra enthusiasm as, once aga...
  171. Rapid development in the field of biotechnology in recent times has provided a wealth...
  172. What is going on in Darfur is a shame for Africa. There is no excuse for the consiste...
  173. No issue has so polarised the Anglican Church as the consecration of the Right Revere...
  174. The Chad-Cameroon pipeline scheme is important for so many different reasons, that an...
  175. The World Bank, in its 2005 World Development Report, says that governments across th...
  176. When South Western Townships (Soweto) was established in the 1950s as a dormitory for...