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Exhibition Review
Africa & Byzantium
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 182–184
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Reviewer:
Barber, Charles (Barber, Charles)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
styles:
Ethiopian School / Coptic art / Syrian / Armenian / Arabian
subjects:
Africa / Byzantine Empire / Visual culture / Manuscripts / Icons / Ceramics / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Africa & Byzantium Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 19th November 2023–3rd March 2024 | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot Psalter. 12th– 14th century, restored and rebound 1636. Ink on parchment, 36.8 by 28 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, MS Barberini or.2, fol.3r; Bridgeman Images; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile fragment with Artemis and Actaeon(?). 5th–7th century. Linen and wool, 147.3 by 183 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with St George and the Virgin Eleousa. c.1500 (left) and c.1480– 90 (right). Tempera and gold on wood, open: 12.2 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Architecture Biennale
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1220-1223
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Reviewer:
Croft, Catherine (Croft, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Lokko, Lesley
dates:
2020-2030
subjects:
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Architecture
subjects:
Decolonisation / Sustainability / Africa / Installations (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Architecture Biennale Various locations, Venice 20th May–26th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of The Laboratory of the Future, Arsenale, Venice, 2023. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Andrea Avezzù).
Attributed works:
2. Installation view of The Laboratory of the Future, Arsenale, Venice, 2023. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Andrea Avezzù).
Attributed works:
3. Installation view of The Laboratory of the Future, Giardini, Venice, 2023. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Matteo de Mayda).
Exhibition Review
Wanderlust: Dutch Artists Abroad 1800–1900. Dordrechts Museum
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1282-1284
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Reviewer:
van der Meij, Lorenz (van der Meij, Lorenz)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands
places:
Italy / France / East Asia / Great Britain / Africa / Germany
subjects:
Dutch art / Nineteenth-century art / Travel
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Wanderlust: Dutch Artists Abroad 1800–1900 Dordrechts Museum 19th June 2022–8th January 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
24. Horses in the Meuse near Dinant, by Johannes Tavenraat. 1841. Oil on paper laid on board, 27.5 by 42 cm. (Dordrechts Museum).
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25. Neighbourhood in Brussels, by Jan Theodoor Kruseman. c.1857. Oil on canvas, 30 by 50 cm. (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; exh. Dordrechts Museum).
Attributed works:
26. Courtyard of a house in Cairo, by Willem de Famars Testas. 1881. Oil on canvas, 84 by 62 cm. (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; exh. Dordrechts Museum).
Book Review
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 92-93
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, Great Britain
subjects:
Ethnology / Collecting / Collections, Public / Africa / Colonialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows By Zachary Kingdon. 336 pp. incl. 34 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, 2021), £24.99. ISBN 978–1–5013–7788–4. | :
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Non-western art unattributed:
6. King’s messenger sword. Akan from Anomabu, Gold Coast (now Ghana), before 1904. Iron, wood and gold foil, length 76 cm. (World Museum Liverpool).
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An Afro-Portuguese ivory from Ksar es-Seghir, Morocco
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 822-824
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Author:
Afonso, Luís Urbano (Afonso, Luís Urbano)
Author:
Gomes, Mário Varela (Gomes, Mário Varela)
Subjects
dates:
Sixteenth-century
media:
Ivories
places:
Morocco / Portugal / Benin / Africa
subjects:
African sculpture / African / Portuguese / Carvings / Ivories / Spoons / Saltcellars / Oliphants / Forks / Pyxes
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Fragments of a Bini-Portuguese spoon or fork. 1525–50. Ivory, length c.7.6 cm. (From C. Redman: Qsar es-Seghir: An Archaeological View of Medieval Life, Orlando 1986, p.130).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Technical drawing based on Fig.1. (J. Gonçalves).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, length 26 cm. (Welt Museum, Vienna).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Spoon. Bini-Portuguese, 1525–50. Ivory, 22 cm long. (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris).
Book Review
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, by Cécile Fromont
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 743
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo / Gabon
places:
Africa / Angola
subjects:
Visual culture / Christian iconography / African / Colonial / Portuguese
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. Portrait of a Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637-44 (Libri Picturati A 34, fol.1; Jagiellonian Library, Kraków)
Book Review
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 746-747
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Reviewer:
McLeod, M. D. (McLeod, M. D.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1899
places:
Africa / Ghana
print:
African sculpture
subjects:
Sculpture / African / Goldsmiths / Gold / Casts (sculpture)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400–1900 | author: Philips, Tom
Publication Received
Miquel Barceló. The African Work
07/2009 | 1276 | 151
Pages: 486
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Reviewer:
Stonard, John-Paul (Stonard, John-Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Barceló, Miquel
dates:
1970-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-1999 / 1990-2009
museums and institutions:
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
places:
Africa
print:
Barceló, Miquel
subjects:
Spanish painting / Exhibition catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Miquel Barceló. The African Work | contributor: Ananguren, Amelie , editor: Hancock, Caroline , contributor: Juncosa, Enrique , contributor: Llop, José Carlos , contributor: Tóbín, Colm
Exhibition Review
Africa Remix. London, Paris and Tokyo
06/2005 | 1227 | 147
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Falconer, Morgan (Falconer, Morgan)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan / Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany / Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Tokyo / Paris / London / Japan / Germany / England / Düsseldorf / France
print:
Africa
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / African / Art / Modern Art
subjects:
Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Assemblages / Installations (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Africa remix | institution: Centre Georges Pompidou , institution: Hayward Gallery , institution: Mori Art Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
76. Eiffel Tower, by Gonçalo Mabunda. 2002. Metal and recycled weapons, 200 by 150 by 150 cm. (The artists and Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicáo, Maputo; exh. Hayward gallery, London).
Attributed works:
77. Ruffian logistics, by Julie Mehretu. 2001. Ink and acrylic, 152 by 335 cm. (Thomas Dane, London; exh. Hayward Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
78. Liberated American woman of the 1970s from Tato series, self-portraits I-IV, by Samuel Fosso. 1997. C-print photograph, 101 by 101 cm. (J.M. Patras, paris, for T&S Ltd; exh. hayward gallery, London).
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