Duende's stories attract our readers' attention since 2013 (previously hosted on brunoclaessens.com) and wishes to provide a useful resource for information on art of the African continent and its diaspora. Stories include exhibition announcements and reviews, interviews with artists, discoveries, new research, auction news, etc.
We welcome contributions and feedback. So, if you wish to share an opinion about a story, provide additional insights or if you have a news story, then please get in touch.
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In Luba countryside: Judge Gorlia and his wife visiting a Luba village chief, ca. 1915. (EEPA 1977-0001-458) (image courtesy of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives ) -
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Yombe nkisi nkondi collected by Robert Visser in 1903. (image courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts) -
(image courtesy of Dr. Marc Ghysels, Brussels)Though inactive since November 2011, this videoblog “Djenne Terracotta” features some amazing views of Djenne figures from the Inland Niger Delta in Mali.
A project of the radiologist Marc Ghysels, 100 terracotta objects from both public as private collections are presented accompanied by an opaque rotation video 3D CT scan. Highlighting the details from all corners, one gets a much better understanding of the threedimensional sculptural qualities of these objects. Worth a visit.
The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (# 81-56 DJ) – (Image courtesy of the Menil Foundation) -
Inscriptions, labels and stickers
auction stickers, gallery stickers, inscriptions and labelsHere you can find an inventory of old registration numbers and labels featured on or attached to African art objects. You can browse them using a custom-designed tree-structure that should be self-explanatory.
In the past, many museums, private collectors and dealers inscribed registration numbers or other information on artworks in their collections. It is the goal of this project to offer a list of such numbers and labels whose authors have been identified. This page will also feature inscriptions that still need to be attributed.
The present list is work in progress. Please get in touch when you would like to add information about inscriptions or labels not already listed.
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(Image courtesy of Néret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou) -
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“Gwan” mother and child figure. (Museum Associates / LACMA, 2013) -
Below a list of links to the online collection databases of museums with African art in their possession.
US
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven)
Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania)
Brooklyn Museum
American Museum of Natural History(New York)
Birmingham Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Fowler Museum (Los Angeles)
Saint Louis Art Museum
National Museum of African Art(Washington)
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Amherst College
Princeton University Art Museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia)
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Peabody Museum (Harvard University)
Cincinnati Art Museum
Indiana University Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum
University of Michigan Museum of ArtCanada
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
UK
British Museum (London)
Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (Norwich)
Horniman Museum (London)
Wellcome Collection (London)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) (Cambridge)Belgium
Royal Museum for Central Africa(Tervuren)
Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerp, former Ethnographic Museum)France
Musée du quai Branly (Paris, in French)
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de ParisThe Netherlands
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen(Rotterdam, Leiden, Amsterdam & Berg en Dal)
Germany
Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin)
Linden Museum (Stuttgart)Spain
Museu de Cultures del Mon de Barcelona(in Spanish)
National Museum of Anthropology(Madrid, in Spanish)
Fundacion La Fontana (Barcelona)Switzerland
Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
Rietberg Museum (Zürich)
Musée Barbier-Mueller (Genève)
Museum Der Kulturen Basel (under construction)Other Countries
Museum for World Cultures (Gothenburg)
Israel Museum (Jerusalem)
Ethnografiska Museet (Stockholm)
Kunstkamera (Saint Petersburg)
Budapest Museum of EthnographyWall of Shame (no database available)
World Museum (Liverpool)
Manchester Museum
Museum La Rochelle (France)