African Art

An article on Nov. 9 about the architect Maya Lin, who once designed quarters for a museum of African art, misstated part of the name of the museum and its status. It is the Museum for African Art, not the Museum of African Art, and it is open at a temporary site in Long Island City, Queens...  

Congolese artist Bisimwa Muheme, who lives in Durban, has paintings on exhibit at Durban’s Fresh Paint Gallery. The exhibition, ‘A Celebration of African Art’, also includes Zambian brothers Jeff and Jim Lungu and Cameroonians Salifou Lindou, Blaise Bang and ‘DKZ’ Simon.  

The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Jewelry and photography. Kind of go together, don't they, like peanut butter and … spark plugs? OK. Maybe not. Nevertheless, there they are, side by side in not one but two museum shows. Better yet, the National Museum of African Art's “Desert Jewels: North...  

The art form that inspired and captivated artists Picasso, Matisse, van Gogh and Gauguin is now finding its way to the floors of many homes in a collection that is the first of its kind. [PR.com - November 21, 2008]  

An educator, she collected African-American art and owned a Baltimore gallery for a decade with her daughter. H azel T. Barrett, a retired educator and collector of African-American art who also had owned and operated a Baltimore art gallery for a decade, died Mondayof complications from...  

Another highlight of the sale was a Kota Reliquary Guardian Figure which sold to applause for $1,058,500 (Lot 55, est. $300/500,000), more than double its high estimate and a record for a Kota sculpture at auction. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby's.  

Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) The Yarra from Kensington Road, South Yarra, 1911. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2008. LONDON.-  

• The mother of all area art shows takes place this weekend. The 29th annual Harvest Time Festival arts and crafts show, a fundraiser for College of Southern Idaho DEX students, will be held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at CSI's Eldon Evans Expo Center. Admission is...  

A new exhibit opens at the Penn Museum on Saturday. It examines the ongoing art, heritage and traditions of an African kingdom that's over 1,000-years-old.  

One afternoon earlier this month I attended an African dance and drumming workshop. It was held at the Centerville Yoga and Wellness Center, a year-old venture that offers an interesting blend of the healing and creative arts.