Current events.Information subject to change * western states (by closing date) 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 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. from the Peabody Essex Museum November 6, 2005-January 29, 2006 Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA Conflict and Art June 7 August 27, 2006 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Stanford, 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 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, 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 Vision of the Shaman, Song of the Priest Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA Africa, Oceania, and the Americas 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. in Context Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, Stanford, CA 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 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) Variations on a Theme Three "Olumeye" by Olowe of Ise September 18, 2005-January 15, 2006 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Art of the Lega Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa October 15, 2005-January 15. 2006 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN For Hearth and Altar African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection December 3, 2005 February 20, 2006 Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. Among its famous collections are those of early Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Flemish paintings, including works by El Greco, Rembrandt, and Hals., Chicago, IL A Fiction of Authenticity Contemporary Africa Abroad September 2006-November 2006 Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX 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; 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 African Art of Dual Worlds University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 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 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 black art - A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare black magic). VLSI design and compiler code optimisation were (in their beginnings) considered classic examples of black art; as theory developed they became deep magic, and once standard textbooks had been written, became merely heavy wizardry. 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; PreColumbian Art; Glassell Collection of African Gold Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX * eastern states (by closing date) Imaging and Identity African Art from the Lowe Art Museum and South Florida Collections December 3, 2005-January 22, 2006 Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL Engaging the Camera African Women, Portraits, and the Photographs of Hector Acebes December 3, 2005-January 22, 2006 Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL continuing exhibitions (by state) The Art of the Ancient Americas and 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 Masks Black Heritage Museum, Miami. 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 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 Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Ethiopian Art from the Collection Waiters Art Museum, 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 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 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 Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA 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 through February 26, 2006 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, PQ Joshua's Journey A Black Cowboy Rides the Chisolm Trail October 8, 2005-January 22, 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) 15 Frauen und 8 Ahnen Leben und Glauben der Bulsa in Nordghana June 30-December 31, 2005 Westfalisches Museum fur Naturkunde Munster, Germany 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, SEAS, London, England Africa Screams Das Bose in Kino, Kunst, und Kult July 9, 2005-March 12, 2006 Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 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 Africa Art, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and history Africa Museum, Tervuren. Belgium 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 African Worlds; Arts of the Pacific Horniman Museum, London, England African and World Art, Ethnography, and Archaeology; Body Arts Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Arts d'Afrique (Maghreb Compris) et d'Oceanie Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris, France Kunst aus West- und Zentral Afrika; Kulturen und Geschichte Afrikas Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany African Art Staatliches Museum for Volkerkunde Munich. Germany Africa: Art from Cameroon, Nigeria, East Africa Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany 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 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, Bamum Drawings and Writing Musee d'Ethnographie Geneva, Switzerland Art from Antiquity and Tribal Civilizations Musee Barbier-Mueller Geneva, Switzerland Traditional African Art Gallery Walu, 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 The Horstmann Collection of Southern African Art; The Foundation Collection; New, Used & Improved contemporary South African art; 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 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 Tsonga and North Sotho Art Tzaneen Museum Tzaneen, South Africa Permanent Collection National Gallery of Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe |
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