Current events.Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Material Differences Art and Identity in Africa April 2, 2005-June 19, 2005 Crocker Art Museum Sacramento, CA Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora September 2, 2005-December 31, 2005 Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco, CA Uncommon Legacies November 6, 2005-January 29, 2006 Washington State Historical Society Tacoma, WA continuing exhibitions (by state) Phoebe Hearst Museum Approaching a Century of Anthropology Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley, CA 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 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.; Harer Harer: see Harar. Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Fullerton Art Museum, California State University San Bernardino, 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 African Art in Context Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, Stanford, CA Sacred Land Hispanic and Indian Cultures of the Southwest Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs, CO Exploring African Art; Native American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, and Canadian art and architecture. The Colonial PeriodIn the 17th cent. the North American colonies enjoyed neither the wealth nor the leisure to cultivate the fine arts extensively.; 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 of Fine Arts University of Utah, Salt 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) Art of the Lega Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa October 15, 2005-January 15, 2006 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN A Fiction of Authenticity Contemporary Africa Abroad September 2006-November 2006 Art Museum of the University of Houston Houston, TX The Quest for Immortality Treasures of Ancient Egypt September 2, 2007-December 31, 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Art of Africa and the Americas Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Arts of Africa and the Americas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Africa Gallery; Native American and Oceanic Art Field Museum, Chicago, IL African Musical Instruments, Fabrics and Jewelry Milner Library, Illinois State University, Normal, IL Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington, IN Fiteljorg Gallery of African Art; Arts of Oceania and the Americas Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN African Art Collection Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA 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 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 The World is a Journey Art in African Life J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY African Gallery; Price Gallery for Native American Art J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 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 Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, Native American, and African Art Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Art of Africa; Art of the Americas; African American Prints and Drawings Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1877 by the Women's Art Museum Association, the museum opened in 1886. Its collections contain examples spanning 3,000 years of artistic production. Works from Mesopotamia and medieval Europe are featured. The museum's European paintings include works by El Greco, Murillo, Mantegna, Tiepolo, and Titian. The museum also houses outstanding collections of Asian art and musical instruments., 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 and Oceania Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH African Gallery Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH African Gallery; Woven Worlds 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. from the Clark Field Collection Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK African Art from the risk University Collection risk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Arts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Sub-Saharan African Art; PreColumbian Art; Glassell Collection of African Gold Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX Coffin Display from Ghana American Funeral Service Museum, Houston, TX African Textile Traditions; The Antelope in African Art; The Tuareg Beloit College, Beloit, WI * eastern states (by closing date) Earthen Elegance African Ceramic Vessels from the Newark Museum Collection Through August 14, 2005 The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Treasures November 17, 2004-August 15, 2005 National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC Here Come the Brides Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Wedding Traditions Through September 4, 2005 The Newark Museum Newark, NJ TEXTures Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art Through September 5, 2005 National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC Shaped Stones from the Sahara Collection of Margaret and Joseph Knopfelmacher April 10-September 5, 2005 The African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly, NJ Where Gods and Mortals Meet Continuity and Renewal in Urhbo Art June 24-September 25, 2005 National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC After the Pharaohs Art of Coptic Egypt 300-1000 A.D. Through November 28, 2006 The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ continuing exhibitions (by state) The Art of the Ancient Americas and the Art of Africa Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 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 The Arts of Africa; Pre-Columbian Collection; Alfred I. Barton Collection of SouthWest Native American Art Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Coral Gables, FL African Masks Black Heritage Museum, Miami, FL Dubois Collection of West African Art; Oceanic Art; Native American Art Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL African Art Collection Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 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 The Spirit Masks of the Nigerian Igbos Museum of African Tribal Art, Portland, ME Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Ethiopian Art from the Collection Waiters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Art of the Ancient World, Egyptian and Nubian Galleries; Arts of Africa and Oceania Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA 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 African, Ancient American and Oceanic Galleries North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Forms and Forces Art from Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and Indonesia Museum Primitives, Haddonfield, NJ 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 African Gallery; Art of the Pacific and the Americas Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY African Sculptures Simmons Collection African Arts 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 Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, NY Egyptian Art Galleries art galleries: see museums of art.; The Jan Mitchell Treasury 250 gold objects from all the goldworking areas of the ancient Americas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY African, Oceania, and the Americas Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY African Art Pace Primitive, New York, NY African Art Warri Gallery, New York, NY 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 Jambo! African Art from the Permanent Collection Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, NY African, Ancient American, and Oceanic Galleries North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 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 Jeola 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, RI African-American Art; Native American Art; African Arts Power, Beauty, Community Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA 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) Beads of Life Eastern and Southern African Adornments April 15, 2005-February 26, 2006 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, QC 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 Arts, Montreal, QC * europe (by closing date) Fire This Time June 30-July 30, 2005 October Gallery London, UK Ekoi e "Cross River" Through July 31, 2005 Totem Gallery, Venice, Italy Black Gods in Exile Photographs by Pierre Fatumbi Verger Through August 28, 2005 Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany Dogon Dogon (dōgän`), African people who live on the bend of the Niger River in the Republic of Mali in West Africa. A patrilineal, sedentary agricultural people, they number over 360,000. They depend mainly on grain crops for their food. Mythe en Werkelijkheid van een Afrikaans Afrikaans (ăf'rəkäns`), member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Although its classification is still disputed, it is generally considered an independent language rather than a dialect or variant of Dutch (see Dutch language). Volk Through August 28, 2005 Rijksmuseum veer Volkenkunde Leiden, The Netherlands Afrika: Kunst und Kultur Through September 2005 Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Prestige and Vision Fine Traditional West African Textiles Through September 12, 2005 Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach, Germany Congo: Nature and Culture Through October 2, 2005 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium Two Cameroonian Photographers Photographs by Samuel Finlak and Chila Joseph October-November, 2005 The Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester, England Romuald Hazoume October 6-November 5, 2005 October Gallery, London, UK Black Gods in Exile Photographs by Pierre Fatumbi Verger October 13, 2005-January 31, 2006 Staatliches Museum for V01kerkunde Munich, Germany Flowers of the Nile Tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art School January-March, 2006 The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, England continuing exhibitions. (by country) Art of Africa; Pre-columbian Art; Indians of North America; Polynesian Art Museum for Volkerkunde, 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 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 Horniman 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 Musee d'Arts Africains, Oceaniens, Amerindiens Marseilles, France Arts Premiers Musee du Louvre, Paris, France * africa continuing exhibitions (by country) Mute Testimonies SANG Permanent Collection South African National Gallery Cape Town, 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 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 Contemporary South African Art from the Permanent Collection Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa |
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