Museums-East Bay Through June 20

09.06.10

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT OAKLAND The Oakland Communal Library's museum is designed to dig up, preserve, interpret and share the cultural and recorded experiences of African Americans in California and the West. In adding, a three-panel mural is on permanent demonstrate. 

Free. Tuesday-Saturday, noonday-5:30 p.m. 659 14th St., Oakland. (510) 637-0200, www.oaklandlibrary.org.

Source: Berkeley Daily Planet

IFE ART EXHIBITION


A engaging and thought-provoking article by Dr. Kwame Opoku, Afrikanet.info.


A significant exhibition on Ife art, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Time-worn Nigeria, opened on June 16, 2009 at the Fundación Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain and will move from there to the Museum for Africa Art, New York, In harmony States and later to the British Museum, London, Opinion Kingdom. The exhibition however will not be shown in Nigeria or in any other African mountains.

The exhibition consists of some 120 super bronze, terra-cotta and stone sculptures from 12th - 15th century from Ife (or more correctly, Ilé-Ife), the ecclesiastical capital of the Yoruba in South-western Nigeria and the arrange where, according to Yoruba mythology, genesis took place; the gods, Oduduwa and Obatala descended from Islands sky to create the earth as directed by the Crowning Deity, Oludumare. The objects in the fair have been loaned by the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) which is working in collaboration with the Fundación Marcelino Botin, the Museum for African Art and the British Museum.

The exhibits file idealized portrait heads, images of keen animals and caricatures of old age and diseases, carved stone animals and seated spear figures. The objects demonstrate the testimony and majesty of a royal dynasty as well as the effectively sophisticated technology and skills of the Ife artists. So awesome are some of these objects that Leo Frobenius, one of the first Europeans to see Ife art, in 1910, could not take it they were produced by Africans. Following European prejudices and inexperience, he attributed the sophisticated, naturalistic works of Ife to a squandered Greek civilization, Atlantis. He pondering the sculpture could not have been made by an African people.

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