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Oceanic art in the streets of Antwerp
In 2009, the Belgian fashion designer Walter van Beirendonck created a bicycle bag for a bicycle promotion campaign in Flanders. Ever since, one can spot these flashy bags on the streets of Antwerp....
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“Kongo: Power & Majesty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
With its new exhibition Kongo: Power & Majesty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art once again continues to leave other museums in its wake when it comes to online presence. For starters, all 148...
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Installation shots “Kongo: Power & Majesty” (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Photograph by Peter Zeray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For the armchair traveller and those of us who will not have the chance to travel to New York, some professional installation shots from...
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Looted Chokwe art to be returned to Dundo Museum in Angola
Image courtesy of the Fundação Sindika Dokolo. After a much discussed interview in The New York Times earlier this year (here), Sindika Dokolo has put his money where his mouth is and has acquired...
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Catalogues December sales online
Nkanu panel, D.R. Congo. Height: 41 cm. Image courtesy of Christie’s. What better way to spend your Friday afternoon than scrolling through the new auction catalogues of the December sales in Paris....
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A rediscovered Maori Hei-tiki
An amazing discovery during the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow: a woman was weeding in her garden and found the above Hei-tiki buried in the ground in a cloth pouch. Check out the video clip here.
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The geographic allocation of the African lots in the December sales in Paris
The traditional centers of the trade in African art are generally considered to be Paris and Brussels. I was curious to see if there’s still a notable predominance of objects coming from the former...
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A tour of Segy Art Gallery, 1951
Ladislas Segy and Lloyd Moss. Image courtesy of NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection. A reader was so kind to send me a link to a radio interview (anno 1951) with African art dealer Ladislas Segy;...
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The Cleveland Museum of Art acquires an Igbo Ikenga figure
Ikenga figure. Height: 73,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Unlike their European counterparts, many US museums are still actively acquiring new objects to complete their (often...
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206,936 !
That’s the number of visits this website has had since it was launched in May 2013. It passed the 200,000 mark undetected last month. It’s nice to see how many of you have stuck with the site since...
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African art made in the UK: the ‘Birmingham Bells’
Above two conical bells that depict human heads in a style that is generally identified as the ‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry’ (southern Nigeria). It may come as a surprise, but these were not made in...
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R.I.P. Jean-Pierre Jernander (1939-2015)
Jean-Pierre Jernander anno 2007 – image courtesy of Guy van Rijn’s Who’s Who in African Art. Last week, the former African art dealer Jean-Pierre Jernander passed away at his home in Brussels (above...
View Article10 years Détours Des Mondes
Congratulations to Martine Pinard, who’s African and Oceanic art blog Détours des Mondes has just celebrated its tenth anniversary! 1400 blog posts later, the website is still going strong and steady...
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A rediscovered Senufo staff
Image courtesy of Anita J. Glaze, 1969. In 1969, Anita J. Glaze took the above field-photo of a Senufo staff in Ivory Coast. It was published recently in Bernard de Grunne’s catalogue on the subject,...
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Lyon’s African Art Museum threatened with closure
Sad tidings from France: the Musée Africain de Lyon (founded in 1860 and holding about 6,000 objects) is threatened with closure. The museum (which receives no public subsidy and relies on income from...
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A James Bond villain collecting African Art
Last night, I discovered that Francisco Scaramanga, the antagonist of James Bond in The Man with the Golden Gun, was an African art collector. When 007 gets invited for lunch at Scaramanga’s island...
View ArticleThe future of online object presentation
Marc Ghysels, always on the edge of new technologic progress, just released a first so-called ‘photoscan‘ of an African art object, see below (or here). It is a 3D view of a Djenne terracotta figure...
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An Oceanic masterpiece moving between museums via Christie’s
Mask. Saibai Island, Torres Strait (Northern Islands, Australia), pre 1870, wood, human hair, shell, seedpod, fiber, pigment, melo shell and coix seeds. Collection Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with...
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Fraught signifiers in African art: “Kota”
Detail of a Sango reliquary figure from Gabon. Africarium Collection. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. In the exhibition catalogue for his exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Kota – Digital...
View ArticleHappy Holidays !
I’d like to wish all my readers a very merry Christmas and a joyful New Year! 2015 was a great year for African art and I’m confident 2016 will be even better. For me personally, it will see the...
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