Current events.Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Kilengi African Art African art, art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. The decorative arts, especially in textiles and in the ornamentation of everyday tools, were a vital art in nearly all African cultures. The lack of archaeological excavations restricts knowledge of the antiquity of African art. from the Bareiss Family Collection Through October 19 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA A Maasai Maasai: see Masai. Community Adorns a Bride Through October 19 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Wall Painting from an Ndebele Community Through October 19 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Mexican Trees of Life Through December 14 Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA Partners of the Soul African Art of the Baule Through January 4, 2004 San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA The Beginning of Seeing Tribal Art and the Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb September 3, 2003-January 4, 2004 Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University Stanford, CA continuing exhibitions (by state) African Trade Beads A Comprehensive and Aesthetic Approach Picard African Trade Bead Museum, Carmel, CA African Gallery; Pre-Columbian Gallery Selections from the Proctor Stafford Collection of West Mexican Ceramics Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA Matthews Collection of African Art; Harer Harer: see Harar. Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Fullerton Art Museum, California State University San Bernardino, CA Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Gallery DeRoche, San Francisco, CA Fiber, Feather, Shell and Stone Shaping Culture in Native California; Power and Creation Africa beyond the Nile; Realms of the Ancestors Arts of Oceania; Arts of Native America; Vision of the Shaman, Song of the Priest Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, Stanford, CA Exploring African Art; Native American Art; Power and Prestige The Royal Arts of Polynesia Denver Art Museum, Denver CO Multiple Visions A Common Bond Folk art from more than 100 countries Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe, NM Art of Cameroon; Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection of Native American Art; Art of the Northwest Coast Portland Art Museum Portland, OR Traditional Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Utah Museum or Fine Arts University of Utah Sail Lake City UT Africa Possessed; Katherine White Collection of African Art; Pre-Columbian and Oceanic Art; Australian Aboriginal Art Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA * central states (by closing date) The Quest for Immortality Treasures of Ancient Egypt Through September 14 Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth. TX Remnants of Ritual Selections from the Gelbard Collection of African Art Through October 26 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Champaign, IL African Art/Western Eyes Through December 19 Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University East Lansing. MI The Quest for Immortality Treasures of Ancient Egypt October 19, 2003 February 25, 2004 New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans. LA Masterworks of African Art The Congo Basin September 6, 2003 May 2. 2004 University of Michigan Museum of Art Ann Arbor, MI African American Art from the Permanent Collection February 22, 2004-May 9, 2004 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX Material Differences Art and Identity in Africa March 5, 2004-May 22, 2004 Hamline University, St. Paul MN continuing exhibitions (by state) Arts of Africa and the Americas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Africa Gallery; Native American and Oceanic Art Field Museum, Chicago, IL Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington. IN Eiteljorg Gallery of African Art; Arts of Oceania and the Americas Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis IN Arts of Africa; African Furnishings University of Iowa Museum of Art Iowa City, IA Art and Life in Africa Selections from the Stanley Collection University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City IA Imperato Africa Gallery Objects from the Sahara, the Sahel, Nigeria, Central Africa, and the Coastal Rain Forest Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum Chanute Chanute (shən  t`), city (1990 pop. 9,488), Neosho co., SE Kans., on the Neosho River; inc. 1873 following the consolidation of four contiguous towns. It is a processing and trade center for an agricultural region, with diverse manufactures. The Safari Museum is there. KS Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA African Art of Dual Worlds University of Michigan Museum of Art Ann Arbor, MI Oceanic Art Selected Objects from the Collection of Richard Manoogian Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI Arts of Africa; Art of the Americas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN Oceanic and pre-Columbian Art; African Art Gallery Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO Oceania; Arts of Africa and the Diaspora Saint Louis Art Museum St. Louis MO Art of Africa; Art of the Americas; African American Prints and Drawings Cincinnati Aft Museum Cincinnati OH African, Oceanic, pre-Columbian, and Native American Art; Video of Masking Performances Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland OH Dimensions in Black Art African, Afro-Brazilian, and African-American Art Afro-American Cultural Center Cleveland State University Cleveland, OH Arts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. TX Sub-Saharan African Art; Pre-Columbian Art; Glassell Collection of African Gold Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston TX African Textile Traditions; The Antelope in African Art; The Tuareg Beloit College, Beloit, WI * eastern states (by closing date) You Look Beautiful Like That The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe Through August 31 Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA Mamluk Rugs from Egypt Jewels of The Textile Museum's Collection Through September 7 Textile Museum, Washington. DC Kara Walker Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress Through September 20 Studio Museum in Harlem New York, NY Black President The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Through September 28 New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY Textile Art of the Bakuba Velvet Embroideries in Raffia from the Sam Hilu Collection Through October 4 African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tonally, NJ Ethiopian Icons Faith and Science Through October 5 National Museum of African Art Washington, DO Material Differences Art and Identity in Africa Through October 6 Museum lot African Art Long Island City, NY Material Differences in Contemporary Art Contemporary works serve as points of comparison to traditional African artworks in companion exhibition Trough October 6 Museum tot African Art Long Island City NY The Majesty of African Motherhood Through October Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA Brett Murray South African sculptor September 24 November 1 Axis Gallery, New York, NY The Fabric of Moroccan Life Through November 2 National Museum of African Art Washington, DC Journeys and Destinations African Artists on the Move Through November 30 National Museum of African Art Washington DC African Shields Art, Power and Identity Through November 30 Newark Museum of Art, Newark NJ Objets d'Art for the Young Collector November Morton Simpson Gallery. New York NY Ethiopian Passages Dialogues in the Diaspora Through December 7 National Museum of African Art Washington, DC My Ethiopia Recent Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof September 7 December 28 Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College SUNY Purchase, NY Balance and Abundance Concepts of Gender in African Art Through December 31 Ham Museum of Art Gainesville, FL AFRICultures Mali, Ivory Coast, and Ghana Through December Albany Museum of Art. Albany, GA The Art of Romare Bearden September 14, 2003-January 3, 2004 National Gallery of Art Washington, DC Beauty and the Beasts Kifwebe Masks of the Songye, Luba and Related Peoples October 26, 2003 January 4, 2004 African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly, NJ The Art of Resist Dyeing Textiles from around the globe from the museum's collection Through January 5, 2004 Textile Museum Washington, DC Ndebele November 14, 2003-January 10, 2004 Axis Gallery New York, NY Wild Beasts, Wild Men How different cultures express their relationships with animals Through January 11, 2004 Lowe Art Museum University of Miami, Miami, FL Eternal Egypt Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum September 19, 2003 January 18, 2004 Waiters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD African-American Quilts From the Robert & Helen Cargo Collection October 3, 2003 February 29, 2004 Textile Museum Washington, DC Doubly Blessed The Ibeji Twins of Nigeria October 23, 2003 March 1 2004 Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora November 13, 2003 March 1. 2004 Museum tar African Art, Long Island City, NY Surfaces February 1, 2004-March 29, 2004 African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly, NJ 13th Triennial Symposium on African Art African Art: Roots and Routes March 31 April 3, 2004 Cambridge, Boston, arid Salem, MA Coptic Egypt 300-1000 A.D. A Multicultural Society October 29, 2003 April 11, 2004 Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Of Power and Grace The Art of Southern Africa from the Norma Canelas and William D. Roth Collection Through July 11, 2004 Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora March 24, 2004 July 18, 2004 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Beauty for the Gods Urhobo Art in a Modern World April 8, 2004-August 16, 2004 Museum for African Art Long Island City, NY The Art of the Ancient Americas and the Art of Africa Through June 2005 Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT continuing exhibitions (by state) Images of Power and Identity; The Art of the Personal Object; The Ancient West African City of Benin, A.D. 1300-1897; The Ancient Nubian City of Kerma, 2500-1500 B.C.; Ceramic Arts at the National Museum of African Art; Sokari Douglas Camp: Three Sculptures National Museum of African Art Washington, DC African Voices National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC Tribal Art from Africa, Australasia, and Native America Aboriginals: Art of the First Person, Sanibel, FL Traditional African Art Ritual, Adornment, Everyday Life Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA African and Egyptian, Near Eastern, pre-Columbian, and Oceanic Art Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University, Atlanta, GA The Richman Collection of African Art High Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Traditional Tribal Art Hamill Gallery of African Art, Boston. MA Encounters with the Americas; Ju/Wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari Peabody Museum. Harvard University Cambridge, MA Africa, The Arts of Power; Design in Native American Art; Faces of Worship A Yoruba God in Two Worlds Newark Museum, Newark, NJ African, Native American, and pre-Columbian Art Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ African Art and Culture African Art Museum of the S.M.A Fathers Tenafly, NJ Reinstallation of African Gallery; Art of the Pacific and the Americas Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY Contemporary African Art Contemporary African Art Gallery New York, NY African Art Farid Tawa Gallery, New York, NY Primitive and Modern Arts Morton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, NY African, Oceania, and the Americas Rockefeller Wing Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY African Art Pace Primitive, New York, NY Traditional African Tribal Art Tribal Reality Gallery, New York, NY African Art Warri Gallery, New York, NY Object and Intellect African Art from the Permanent Collection Neuberger Museum of Art State University of New York, Purchase, NY Arts of West Africa Charles D. Miller III Gallery St. James, NY African Art From Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria Charles Jones African Art Wilmington, NC Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania Museum of Anthropology Winston Salem, NC African Art Barnes Foundation Merion, PA African Gallery; Egypt and Mesopotamia; Mesoamerican Art; Native American Art University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Philadelphia, PA Photography and the Art of Ethnography The Kujamaat Joola of Senegal in the 1960s; Passionate Hobby Rudolf Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum Masterpieces of Native American art from the museum founder's collection Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Bristol, Rl African, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian Galleries Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Spirit of the Motherland African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA * canada (by closing date) Nuvisavik The Place Where We Weave Through September Canadian Museum of Civilization Gatineau, PQ A Forest of Flowers Words and Sculpture of West Africa Through December 12 Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queens University, Kingston, ON continuing exhibitions (by province) Where Symbols Meet A Celebration of West African Achievement Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AL African Collection Museum of Anthropology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC The Nubia Gallery; Ontario Prehistory Gallery Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON African, Oceanic, Amerindian, Inuit, and pre-Columbian Art Montreal Museum of Fine Airs. Montreal, PO * europe (by closing date) Time for Baskets Basketry basketry, art of weaving or coiling and sewing flexible materials to form vessels or other commodities. The materials used include twigs, roots, strips of hide, splints, osier willows, bamboo splits, cane or rattan, raffia, grasses, straw, and crepe paper. Discoveries in the W United States indicate that the use of clay-covered baskets for cooking probably led to making pottery, while in the Andaman Islands pottery was evidently made first. objects from Angola and Zambia Through mid September Museu Nacional de Etnologia Lisbon, Portugal Group Portrait South Africa Nine Family Histories Multimedia presentation of contemporary South Africa through the multigenerational experiences of nine families Through September 23 KIT tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Textile Kunst des Kongo Sudlich des Sankuru-Flusses Through September 27 Galerie Franke, Stuttgart, Germany Ethiopia Christianity between the West and Africa Through October 12 Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munich, Germany Forms of Wonderment A Half Century of Collecting Through October Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands Chokwe and Their Bantu Bantu (băn`t '), ethnic and linguistic group of Africa, numbering about 120 million. The Bantu inhabit most of the continent S of the Congo River except the extreme southwest. Neighbours September 5-November 1 Galerie Walu Zurich, Switzerland Art from Africa New Works by African Artists October 23 December 6 October Gallery, London, England Sexuality and Death AIDS in Contemporary African Art October 19, 2003-January 2b, 2004 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, Germany Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art November 22, 2003 January 2004 Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England Arkilla Wedding Blankets from Mall Through February 16, 2004 Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland World of Eastern Christians Includes section on the Coptic Church and the Church of Ethiopia October 3, 2003-February 2004 Naprstek Museum Prague, Czech Republic Parures de Tete September 25, 2003-July 11,2004 Music Dapper Paris, France Boten aus dem Jenseits Afrikanische Kleinfiguren der "Schenkung Anna Erna Grassnick" Through 2004 Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany Afrika: Kunst und Kultur Through September 2005 Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany continuing exhibitions (by country) Art of Africa; pre-Columbian Art; Indians of North America; Polynesian Art Museum for V01kerkunde, Vienna, Austria Art and Ethnography from Africa, Oceania and the Americas Etnografisch Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Masked Celebrations and Traditions in Africa, Oceania, Europe and the New World Musee international du Carnaval et du Masque Binche, Belgium Africa Art, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and history Africa-Museum Tervuren, Belgium Art and Ethnography from the Americas and Oceania Naprstek Museum, Prague, Czech Republic Ethnographical Treasures National Museum of Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark Transatlantic Slavery Against Human Dignity Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England West Africa Bronzes from Benin City, woodcarving from Yoruba and Ibo areas Liverpool Museum, Liverpool. England Contemporary African Artists Africa Centre, London, England African History and Achievements Commonwealth Institute, London England African Worlds; Arts of the Pacific Hornirnan Museum, London, England Sainsbury African Galleries British Museum, London, England African and World Art, Ethnography, and Archaeology; Body Arts Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Art et Traditions d'Afrique Noire Musee Africain, Lyon, France Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Music d'Arts Africains, Oceaniens, Amerindiens Marseilles, France Arts Premiers Musee du Louvre, Paris, France African Gallery Musee de I'Homme, Paris, France Arts d'Afrique (Maghreb Compris) et d'Oceanie Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie Paris, France Sculptures and Masks from Africa Gallery African and Tribal Arts, Berlin, Germany Kunst aus West-und Zentral Afrika; Kulturen und Geschichte Afrikas Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany African Art Reins-Museum, Mannheim, Germany African Art Staatliches Museum fur V01kerkunde Munich, Germany Africa: Art from Cameroon, Nigeria, East Africa Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany Ancient Egypt National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Africa and Oceania Museo Preistorico Etnogratico "L. Pigorini" Rome, Italy Society and Religion Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands African Art; Treasury Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Sahel Daily Life and Survival Museon, Department of Ethnology ethnology /eth·nol·o·gy/ (eth-nol´ah-je) the science dealing with the major cultural groups of humans, their descent, relationship, etc. The Hague, Netherlands Wider World Art of Africa, Americas, and Oceania National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Village Life in Lower Zaire National Museum of Ethnography Stockholm, Sweden African, Oceanic, and Native American Art Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland African Masks and Handicrafts, Berber Jewelry, Akan Akan (əkän`, äk`ən), people of W Africa, primarily in Ghana, where they number over 7.5 million, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo. They speak languages of the Twi branch of the Kwa subfamily. Although patrilineal descent is recognized, matrilineal descent is more important; social organization is built around the clan. Goldweights, Barnum Drawings and Writing Musee d'Ethnographie Geneva, Switzerland Art from Antiquity and Tribal Civilizations Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland Egypt, Black Africa, Cabinet de Meuron Musee d'Ethnographie Neuchatel. Switzerland Traditional African Art Gallery Weld, Zurich, Switzerland African and Oceanic Art From the Baron Eduard von der Heydt Collection Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland * africa (by closing date) Coexistence Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa September 24, 2003 March 2004 South African National Gallery Cape Town, South Africa Group Portrait South Africa Nine Family Histories Multimedia presentation of contemporary South Africa through the multigenerational experiences of nine families January June 2004 MuseumAfrica Johannesburg, South Africa continuing exhibitions (by country) O-Kun: An African Civilization and Its Neighbours O-kun Museum, Akodi Afrika llorin, Nigeria Mute Testimonies Sang Permanent Collection South African National Gallery Cape town, South Africa Affinities Paintings, sculptures, craftwork, and photographs demonstrating cross-cultural interaction in South Africa South African National Gallery Cape Town, South Africa Southern African Tribal Art Afri-Karner Museum Franschhoek, South Africa Southern African Beadwork and Artifacts Fiona le Blanc Gallery Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa The Horstmann Collection of Southern African Art; The Foundation Collection; New, Used & Improved Contemporary South African art; Secular and Spiritual Objects of Mediation on Views from Within; Permanent Collection of Southern African Traditional/Transitional Art Johannesburg Art Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa The Permanent Collections at MuseumAfrica MuseumAfrica Johannesburg, South Africa Traditional South African Artifacts; Contemporary South African Crafts Kim Sacks Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Nigerian Art: The Meneghelli Collection Totem Gallery Johannesburg South Africa The Standard Bank Collection of African Art University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries Johannesburg, South Africa Art from West Africa Totem Galleries: Rosebank, Carlton, Sandton Johannesburg, South Africa African Art La Rochelle Gallery, Paarl, South Africa Sisonke: Symbols of Identity; Traditional African Art; Story of People in Southern Africa Archaeology of South African Stone and Iron Ages, San rock art Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa Contemporary South African Art from the Permanent Collection Pretoria Art Museum Pretoria, South Africa African Art Les Art International, Saxonwold South Africa Tsonga and North Sotho Art Tzaneen Museum Tzanoeen South Africa Permanent Collection National Gallery of Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe * middle east (by closing date) Spirit Hunters Central African artworks as agents of power and spirituality Through September 1 Israel Museum Jerusalem, israel Talking Beads Beadwork from the museum's African collection Through April 15 2004 Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel continuing exhibitions Faith-Dorian and Martin Wright Gallery of African Art Israel Musem, Jerusalem, Israel |
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