Tribal Art - New Orleans Museum offers overview of African Art

Tribal Works offers this from JacarandaTribal, a blog with a special expertise in African tribal art that we follow -

African Art from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, April 28, 6-8 p.m.
Curator of African Art William Fagaly will use the Museum's collection to provide educators with a general overview of the arts of Africa. The objects in the galleries will help to shed light on the religious, social and artistic background of each culture represented. Overall themes within the collection will be highlighted, allowing educators to present the material to their students with ease. Education staff also will discuss classroom activities and suggestions for incorporating African art into a variety of curricula.

Thanks Jacaranda.

We speak Tribal Art in many languages

If you are reading this blog as is, you may find the following news unimportant.

On the other hand, if you know people who speak languages other than English, and who are interested in tribal art, you can tell them that Aboriginals' websites now have Google translation capability.

Our Zuni fetish carving site at ZuniLink.com , our Native-JewelryLink.com site featuring Native American jewelry, our website featuring Native American pottery, Native-PotteryLink.com, and our TribalWorks.com site, with African, Australian, Arctic and Navajo folk art items, no all have a Google gadget that allows the text of the entire site to be translated to several non-English languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Russian and more, even Arabic.

Simply go to the home page, find the Google translation box and enter the language you would like to translate to. The page you are on will be translated to that language as will every other page on the site.

A warning, however - This is machine translation so that it doesn't deal with colloquial expression well. When your cursor passes over a translated phrase, a window will open offering the original English wording and will ask if there is a more accurate translation possible. Your response will go to Google, where it will add to their knowledge of languages.

Please give us a comment to let us know if you like this capability. Thank you.

Do we need a Culture Czar?

Posted by William and Susanne Waites of Native-JewelryLink, Native-PotteryLink, TribalWorks and ZuniLink, under Tribal Art

Culture Grrl Lee Rosenbaum, who blogs as the Culture Grrl and comments on the culture and arts scene, has posted a message expressing disfavor with the concept of a Federal Government culture czar. Frankly, we agree with her.

The government has no business "czar-ing" art and culture. If they can tell us what good art is, they can tell us what bad art is. We fervently believe that judgement is best made by the audience as individuals. Keep the politics out of it.

We've captured an opening paragraph Lee's blog. There is a link to continue at the end.

I've got nothing against better coordination among government programs involving the arts and humanities. Regular meetings of representatives from the relevant offices and agencies could foment creative synergies. Perhaps a White House official with advisory, not managerial, responsibilities could help facilitate this without inserting what we emphatically DON'T need---an extra layer of bureaucratic control over our nation's cultural activity.

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New African Art Site

Early on in our excursion in to African Tribal Art, we were encouraged by David Norden, a collector of unusual knowledge and experience.

In fact, we still post suggestions for collecting African Tribal Art at TribalWorks.com that were based largely on original thoughts by David.


He was the moderator of the African_Antiques group at Yahoo Groups, and now has a new blog and web site at African Art Club.

Some of the articles are in German. Even those are understandable. And the photos are in the universal language of photography.

We recommend a visit to the African Art Club to stay current about news in the field.

Skinner to hold Ethnographic Art Auction -1/24/09

(From William and Susanne Waites at Aboriginals: Art of the First Person, proprietors of web sites at TribalWorks, Native-PotteryLink, Native-JewelryLink and ZuniLink)

Skinner, Inc., A Boston auction gallery has scheduled an auction of American Indian and Ethnographic Art on Saturday Jan 24th at 10AM

Lots will include Pre-Columbian and African material, Native American items - including several lots of moccasins, items from the Northwest Coast, Katsina dolls, Navajo silver and several ollas.

In January, Skinner will be launching a new live bidding applet on skinnerinc.com. This applet will provide Skinner’s clients with a whole new bidding experience: the ability to bid live in real-time on the Skinner website from the convenience of home or work. For more information on all the ways to bid in a Skinner auction, or to register to be one of the first live bidders, log onto How to Buy & Sell at http://www.skinnerinc.com/buy-sell/skinner-live.php

5 more days 'til Sotheby's Spring Tribal Art Sale

Sotheby's African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art Auction, scheduled for May 16, 2008 at the New York Gallery is just five days away.

For a summary of the auction and an interpretation of it's significance in the world of Tribal Art, visit this article in News-Antiques.com.

Baga serpents, one of which is featured in the auction and the article, with an estimate of 1.5 to 2 million dollars, are some of the continent's most striking sculptural objects.

We will miss the auction in person but will be monitoring it from afar and will report on the most interesting sales.

Thank you for your attention, William Ernest Waites, TribalWorks

Another sotheby's Auction - African and Oceanic, May 16, 2008

Here's another auction at Sotheby's NY that may be of interest to collectors and fans of tribal art. This one features African and Oceanic.

Sotheby's usually posts an online catalog at its auction sites. Or you can order a printed copy delivered by mail.

EXHIBITION Dates and Times

Location: New York

Viewing:
Sat, 10 May 08, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sun, 11 May 08, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mon, 12 May 08, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tue, 13 May 08, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed, 14 May 08, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sale:
Thu, 15 May 08, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

African Art takes off - well, almost

The T. Terminal of the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is home to an impressive exhibit of African art. Entitled "Symbolic Use of Animals in African Cultural Arts", the exhibit features the cultural unity of humans and animals, with numerous masks including masks of west and central Africa.

Exhibit sponsor, Herman Bigham claims, "this presentation may be the largest, most widely viewed exhibit of World Class African Traditional Sculptural Art ever displayed in a public place." Bigham advised that the exhibit was successfully presented at the Main Branch Library in Philadelphia, where approximately 25,000 visitors viewed it.

With 35 million travelers annually, the exhibit is bound to spread awareness of the beauty of African art and the rich culture of the African art tradition to millions more before it concludes its run in October, 2008.
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Tribal Artery is brought to you by William Ernest Waites and Susanne Waites, proprietors of Aboriginals: Art of the First Person online gallery, including the web site at TribalWorks.com. Numerous examples of authentic African Tribal art will be found for sale at the site.

Apologies about Triennial blog

If you check the archives of this blog, you will see that a few messages back I promised to blog from the Triennial on African Art in Gainesville, FL.

Personal and family problems interfered with my ability to attend. I had reserved both a hotel room and a registration for the sessions, which I had to cancel.

Sorry. But I am still planning to be at Santa Fe Indian Market and repeat the blog messaging as we did last year. We may also blog from the Gallup InterTribal shortly before the Indian Market.

Speaking of Indian Market, we already are hearing advance promotion about this consummate Indian art event. If you are in the Santa Fe area in August, you might consider volunteering to help out at the Indian Market. I can't think of a better way to immerse yourself in the art of our native American brothers and sisters.

Before you departfor Santa Fe, however, you might visit our web sites at TribalWorks.com, Native-JewelryLink.com, ZuniLink.com and Native-PotteryLink.com. Check out our prices. Back when we had a physical gallery, we used to overhear shoppers comment that they were waiting to visit Santa Fe to buy at lower prices. We have been in Santa Fe, which we love by the way, often enough to know that our online prices - even without our sale discount - are more than competitive with Santa Fe's.

After all, we don't have to pay the rent that they do on the Plaza.

Just nine days left to save 30%

by William Waites

If you have been out of circulation, or otherwise not visiting our web sites, Native-JewelryLink, Native-PotteryLink, TribalWorks and ZuniLink, you may be unaware that we have been offering 30% off through out the month of April. (We call it April Foolishness.)

Well, it ends in just nine days.

If you have seen something on one of our web sites that you have always wanted, now is the time to visit again and take advantage of our 30% discount sale.

Incidentally, this is not a sale price on an inflated regular price. You have access to some of the lowest prices for quality items in our day-to-day prices. This is a legitimate 30% reduction for one month only – with only nine days left.

We’ll leave a computer on for you.

African Archaeology Conference at 14th Triennial

In addition to everything else scheduled for the 14^th Triennial Symposium on African Art the weekend of March 28 - April 1, 2007 at the University of Florida, which we will be blogging about in Tribal Artery, Peter Schmidt has organized a full day conference on African archaeology. The day will be followed by working sessions over several days. We are told the working sessions will not be open to the public.

The title of the conference is Post Colonial Archaeologies of Africa. We are told it will run through April 3, 2007. - William Ernest Waites, Aboriginals: Art of the First Person and TribalWorks.com