Fertile, Frightful, Divine!
             African Tribal Art from the Raskin Collection

June 24 - July 22, 2011

Opening Reception
Friday June 24, ~ 6:00 - 8:30 PM  Lecture: Friday, July 8,  6:30 PM
Article re the exhibit
 http://thealternativepress.com/articles/raskin-family-african-art-collection-opens-at-alfa--2
Alfa Gallery
108 Church Street
New Brunswick, NJ  08901
Phone/Fax:
(732) 296-6720
E-mail: 
info@alfaart.org

 

Art Installation
de Appel arts centre,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco "Super Normal"
June 19 - Sept 5,
2010

                     Bronze leopards from our collection made a big splash as a part of a Solo Project
                    by the Norwegian artist Bjarne
Melgaard/Rod Bianco “Super Normal” in Amsterdam. 
http://www.deappel.nl/exhibitions/e/696/

 

African Art Exhibit
Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica NY
AFRICAN Masquerade & The Collector’s Dilemma
September 6 – 25, 2010

                                                    A Pende Mask purchased from our website was featured with masks from the collection of
                                                                    William H, Gotwald, PhD.  Download the
show and presentation.


 


 

TV Appearance
“The Big C TV” Series

       Dogon sculpture from www.arttribal.com is appearing in the new Showtime series
“The Big C”.
You will recognize the actors in the series:

                                                                Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me, The Truman Show, Mystic River),
                                                                Oliver Platt (The West Wing, The Bronx is Burning, Frost/Nixon),
                                                                Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) and
                                                                Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)

                                                         The role of our Dogon piece?  A decorative one! First of the 13 episodes premiered on August 16th.  

Cameo Apearance in a Documentaty, release date Sept 2010
            Five masks from our Museum site
www.zyama.com made a delightful cameo appearance in a new documentary film “Gateways to Faerie”.
           You may be familiar with creations of John Curtis Crawford, the artist whose faerie houses are the subject of this film. Throughout his artistic
                        career, John created, built and manipulated various creatures, dinosaurs, and aliens, as well as fanciful characters for Jim Henson's Muppets.
His work has won numerous awards including one from the Cannes Film Festival for Special Effects.