Current events.Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) Basquiat July 17 October 10, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA Carnaval in Africa Photographs of Guinea Bissau by Doran H. Ross September 7-October 29, 2005 Fowler Museum of Cultural History Los Angeles, CA Looking Both Ways Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora September 2-December 31, 2005 Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco, CA 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 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 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 A Victorian Gentleman's Look at the World Artifacts from Africa, Oceania, and other regions Rosemount Victorian House Museum, Pueblo, 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; Australian Aboriginal Art; Pre-Columbian and Oceanic 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-November 2006 Art Museum of the University of Houston Houston, TX The Quest for Immortality Treasures of Ancient Egypt September 2-December 31,2007 Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX continuing exhibitions (by state) 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 Eiteljorg 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, JA Arts of Africa; African Furnishings 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 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, Me 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 Fisk University Collection Fisk 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) Artists and Patrons in Traditional African Cultures African Sculpture from the Gary Schutze Collection Through September 30, 2005 Queensborough Community College Art Gallery Bayside, NY Where Gods and Mortals Meet Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo 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, Emery 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; JuANasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari Peabody Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, MA Pacific Cultures Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, 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 ethnography: see anthropology; 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 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, 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 Beads of Life Eastern and Southern African Adornments through February 26, 2006 Canadian Museum of Civilization Gatineau, PQ 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) 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 Volkerkunde Munich, Germany Flowers of the Nile Tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art School January March, 2006 The Brunei Gallery, SOAS London, England Bresil, heritage africain September 22, 2005-March 26, 2006 Musee Dapper Paris, France continuing exhibitions (by country) Art of Africa; Pre-Columbian Art; Indians of North America; Polynesian Art Museum fur 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 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 Horniman Museum, London, England Sainsbury African Galleries British Museum, London, England African and World Art, Ethnography, and Archaeology; Body Arts Pitt Rwers 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 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 Reiss-Museum, Mannheim, Germany African Art Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde, 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 Etnografico "L. Pigorini," Rome, Italy Africa South of the Sahara KIT Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 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 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, Bamum 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 Walu Zurich, Switzerland African and Oceanic Art From the Baron Eduard von der Heydt Collection Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland * africa continuing exhibitions (by country) O-Kun: An African Civilization and its Neighbours O kun Museum, Akodi Afrika Ilorin, 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 Tzaneen, South Africa Permanent Collection National Gallery of Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe |
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