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Announcing Duende Art Projects – a new kind of art gallery by Bruno Claessens
I’m proud to announce my new venture: Duende Art Projects. My brand new gallery’s ambition is to inspire people and enrich their lives by sharing a profound passion for the art of the African...
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New publication on the artworks of the Verre people of Nigeria
The art of the Verre peoples of Northeast Nigeria finally has gotten the scholarly attention it deserves. Three passionate researchers, Richard Fardon, Tim Chappel and Klaus Piepel, have just...
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Field-photo of the day: likishi Iya radio (Zambia, 2016)
Photo by Martin Vorwaerts, 2016. This is a likishi (singular), an ancestral spirit from the vaka chinyama communities (Luvale, Mbunda, Luchazi & Chokwe people) from Zambia.. Makishi (plural) appear...
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The Michel Périnet collection to be sold at Christie’s Paris on 23 June 2021
On Wednesday 23 June, Christie’s will be offering the Michel Périnet collection of African, Oceanic and Native American art for sale in Paris. Prior to his death in 2020, the legendary Parisian...
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13 carats Kota-inspired earrings by Graff
In case you would be looking for a beautiful gift for someone special (or yourself), and money is not a problem, please look no further. The upper-end jewellery brand Graff just launched a new set of...
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Help needed deciphering an old inscription
Dear friends, I hope someone of you could help me out deciphering this old inscription on a metal band – above a poor ‘panorama’ view of the whole – more pictures can be found below. I read: Nimrod en...
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Gallica, a digital library to bookmark
A site to bookmark for the home-working researchers without access to a decent library: the French digital library Gallica. Search for example on ‘Charles Ratton’ and you’ll get a good number of old...
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“Distinguished: Women Artists of the Inventory” at the MARKK, Hamburg
Image courtesy of the MARKK. Thanks to Elena Martinez-Jacquet, I just discovered the Hamburg’s former Museum of Ethnology (now known as the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt or MARKK)...
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Herzekiah Andrew Shanu, a Yoruba photographer in Congo at the turn of the...
Portrait of Herzekiah-Andrew Shanu, probably dating from his trip to Europe in 1894. Image courtesy of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (HP.1965.14.246). A book which I have been enjoying...
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A Kota fighting voter apathy
Slightly deviating from the ongoing series about African art featured in advertisements, check out this cool vintage poster from the National Coalition on Black Voter Participation urging the public...
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New book: “Transitional art of the Tikar from Cameroon” (David Zemanek, 2021)
I would like to bring your attention to a new book by David Zemanek, “Transitional Art of the Tikar from Cameroon”. This monograph studies a single type of statuary made by the Tikar as a response to...
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“Chambers of Memory”, an early work by El Anatsui inspired by a 2000 year old...
El Anatsui – “Chambers of Memory”, 1977. Ceramics, manganese. 40 × 26 cm. Collection of the artist, Nsukka, Nigeria. © El Anatsui. Courtesy of the artist. Among the first works El Anatsui created after...
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“Noutchy in New York City”– Aboudia gets a dedicated online sale at...
The news stayed a bit under the radar during this global pandemic, but something rather extraordinary happened in the art market earlier this month : the acclaimed Ivorian artist Abdoulaye...
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The celebration and emancipation of blackness in contemporary African...
Ever since Adenike Cosgrove published her yearly State of the African Art Market last month, I’ve been thinking about the comment one of the participants of the survey made: “The (African)...
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The Ohly Benin head –“not to be sold, unless there was another Holocaust”
Image courtesy of Woolley and Wallis. In case you missed it, African art made it to the main page of BBC News last weekend, you can read the article “The art dealer, the £10m Benin Bronze and the...
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A Fang throwing knife sells for 200 times its estimate
There was lots of excitement in the community of African weapons collectors a couple of days ago. A small auction house in France (Dupont-Morlaix) was offering an extremely rare Gabonese throwing...
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African art in “A New Leaf” (1971) &À gauche en sortant de l’ascenseur (1981)
A blog reader was so kind to signal me the presence of two Bamana masks in the cult classic A New Leaf, directed by Elaine May (1971). Two Bamana masks from Mali can be observed in the living room of...
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“Man Who Cannot Die”– a new book on phantom shields of the New Guinea Highlands
While virtually visiting the 35th annual San Francisco Tribal and Textile Art online show last week, I was delighted to learn about the publication of a new book on the super cool ‘phantom’ shield of...
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Explore the collection of the Vienna Weltmuseum online
San petroglyph, South Africa. Image courtesy of the Weltmuseum (inv. no. 57585, info). Another online museum database to bookmark and discover, is the one from the Weltmuseum (former Museum of...
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Rihanna dancing with a chiwara headdress in a galaxy far away
It was only two seconds, and it is in a sci-fi movie, so there’s a big chance you missed it, but I found it very cool to see the international pop star Rihanna dance wearing a chiwara headdress from...
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