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establishment of South African Museum
the month and the date, i made it up. it proved impossible getting the correct month and the date which the museum was founded. -
Reincanation of SAM
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cast of Bushmen
The Sculpture of Isidore Konti, 1862-1938: Exhibition , January 26-March 30 .. -
Construction of Diorama
Challenge and Transformation: Museums in Cape Town and Sydney By Katherine J. Goodnow, Jack Lohman, Jatti Bredekamp -
Start of Apartheid
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Diorama: Bushmen Exhibit
[Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations By Ivan Karp](http:///books.google.co.za/) -
Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment and others
All except Goldberg are sent to Robben Island to serve their sentences. Goldberg, as the only white person convicted in the trial, is held in Pretoria Central Prison. Mandela is assigned the prisoner number 466/64 -
PRIMITIVISM: In the 20th century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern at MOMA
the first ever to juxtapose modern and 200 tribal objects in the light of informed art history. The exhibition includes approximately 150 modern works, covering the period from the turn of the century to the present. Special emphasis was placed on artists and movements-Gauguin, Picasso, Brancusi, Modigliani, Klee, the Expressionists and Surrealists-most deeply involved with tribal art, and several rarely seen works by these artists will be exhibited to elucidate this interest.More -
ART/ARTIFACT: African Art in Anthropology Collections,
Art/ Artifact,takes as its subject not so much African art per se, but the various ways Westerners have displayed it since the late 19th century. It sets out to examine how the different physical and institutional contexts of the art gallery, the ''curiosity room,'' the anthropology museum and the art museum can condition perceptions and different notions of value, moving objects back and forth on a sliding scale between art and artifact. -
Magiciens de la Terre
n 1989 the ambitious exhibition Magiciens de la Terre opened in Paris curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, presenting the work of over one hundred artists, half of whom were described as non-Western. In a daring bid to open up the art world centred in West Europe and North America, Magiciens de la Terre argued for the universality of the creative impulse and endeavoured to offer direct and equal aesthetic experience of contemporary works of art made globally. -
Opening of "Into the heart of Africa" Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum
Jeanne Cannizzo, the curator, set out to denounce colonialism and criticize white Canada's attitudes to Africa. But black protesters, looking at images of Africans humiliated by missionaries, saw the reverse. -
Africa Explores:20th Century African Art
'African Explores' demonstrates the vitality of African art and culture today examining some of the major themes and artistic innovations in African art in the twentieth century. Africa Explores, which sought to challenge the “widely held misconception about 20th century Africa that there is no modern Africa or African art, merely second-hand Western culture”, received a great deal of critical international attention and established itself as a milestone in the historiography of African art -
Art and Ambiguity
The exhibition was also an
acknowledgment of these objects as artworks, thus challenging prevalent attitudes that saw
southern African art as really just craft. -
EXHIBITION-ISM: Museums and African Art
Exhibition-ism: Maddresses issues of museum practice—what shapes our experience of art: the work itself or its setting and display? How do museums provide—or deny—access to artworks through their presentation? It reflects on the nature of museums as institutions of learning, and exhibitions as a format for shaping how the public encounters and understands works of art through the examination of looking at African art in museums. -
Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture
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Robben Island museum
The Robben Island Museum was officially opened. -
Liberated voices: Contempoaray art of South Africa
Having defined themselves for decades by the oppression of Apartheid, South African artists are seeking ways to reconcile their past and present in order to meet the future. This soul-searching process turns on such questions as "where do we go from here?" "what does it mean to be black, colored, or white in the new South Africa?," and "what emotional history must be dealt with to enable harmonious living among diverse populations -
Conference: Khoisan Diversity in National Unity, Oudtshoorn
Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith -
closing down of Bushmen Diorama at SAM
The closing of the controversial "Bushman" diorama exhibited at the South African Museum in Cape Town, symbolised the museum's commitment to change. The exhibition was shut down after 42 years following protests from the Khoisan community and others who said the diorama represented a time when Bushmen were treated like specimens in a natural history museum. A modeller at the South African Museum, James Drury, originally cast the Bushman figures in 1912 in Prieska -
Western Cape Museums renamed Iziko Museums
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Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa
Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa reveals the traditions, rituals, and spiritual powers intrinsic to the materials used to create works of art in Africa. The choice of materials, which are profoundly significant, demonstrates the social, economic, and religious status of the objects themselves, their owners, and the artists who create them. To understand African art, then, we need to examine the different layers of meaning inherent in the material of each objec -
iZIKO SANG: Coexistence: Contemporary cultural production in South Africa
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Exhbition: /Qe. The Power of Rock Art
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Exhibition @ Castle of Good Hope
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AFRICA REMIX: Contemporary Art of a ContinenT
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PICASSO AND AFRICA: Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg
The implication of this for Africa is significant: Picasso, pioneer of the European avant-garde in the early 20th Century, looked to Africa for new forms and modes of interpreting the world. The show thus makes a strong case for the inherent sophistication of African art, a welcome rebuttal of centuries of Western cultural hegemony. Indisputably, Picasso remained locked into the kind of understanding of African art that was later to inform the controversial 'Magiciens de la Terre' (Centre George -
AFRICA REMIX -Johannesburg
Africa Remix’, a major exhibition of contemporary African art comprising almost 200 pieces by 87 artists in Africa and the Diaspora, was opened by Mr Denis Pietton, French Ambassador, on 24 June 2007. With the financial support of France and the French Embassy in South Africa, "Africa Remix" is for the first time on show in Africa, at the Johannesburg Art Gallery from 24 June until 30 September 2007. ’Africa Remix: the contemporary art of a continent’ was conceptualised in 2004 by Simon Njami -
OF AFRICA: at the ROM aims to repair old wounds caused by "Into the heart of Africa" exhibit
Since 2013, Crooks and Fontaine have been working with ROM curator Silvia Forni to develop a platform that would enable a more open and dynamic presentation of the diversity and creativity of the African continent. With Of Africa, the curators will present and promote historical and contemporary cultural and artistic production in Africa and its Diasporas to highlight issues that impact the present and evoke the potential of an infinite future. -
