Tribal Art London 2014

The only London show specializing in tribal art is getting a makeover this year. It is being renamed Tribal Art London and will henceforth be held at Mall Galleries, where it will include twice as many participants as previous years. This should also double the chances that its attendees will be able to find the masks, figures, textiles, ornaments, and ethnographic photographs they are looking for. Books and publications will also be available, and Tribal Art Magazine will have a presence at the event as well.

More information can be found at the fair's official website.

Africa Re-Viewed: The Photographic Legacy of Eliot Elisofon

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art, the museum is organizing a retrospective exhibition of internationally-renowned photographer Eliot Elisofon. The exhibition focus on Elisofon's innovative photography and its impact on portraying the diverse arts and cultures of modern-era Africa. The exhibition will be the first to pair his photographs with collected objects, films, books, and journals, and the first exhibition in forty years to celebrate his photographic legacy.

Visit the Smithsonian website.

Images courtesy of the National Museum of African Art

Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Portfolios

In the early decades of the 20th century, famed photographer of the American West Edward S. Curtis created and published a vast photographic record of North American Indians. These iconic images have generated controversy even as they have fascinated generations of viewers. Photogravures from the permanent collections of the Arizona State Museum and examples of the copper plates from the collections of the Center for Creative Photography are currently on view at the ASM in Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Portfolios, an exhibition exploring Curtis’s work with thirteen Arizona tribes from 1903 to 1928. Twenty images will be exhibited at one time, then rotated after six months, for a total of sixty over the life of the exhibit.

Information and images courtesy of the Arizona State Museum

Patagonie: Images du Bout du Monde

Currently on view at the Musée du quai Branly, Patagonie: Images du bout du monde (Patagonia: Images from the End of the World) presents a diversity of representations, narratives and myths attached to the great southern tip of the Americas.  Departing from historical accounts and centuries-old, fantastic reports of the furthermost reaches of South America, the exhibition seeks to separate fact from fiction, providing a contemporary perspective on a land and group of indigenous cultures once obscured by fable. The objects on view, which include a marvelous group of rare photographs regarding Hain ceremonials, are drawn from the quai Branly's own collection as well as French and German private collections.
On view through May 13.

Visit the exhibition's official website.

Information and images courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly