SHAMAN New York City—This summer, Maureen Zarember of Tambaran Gallery and Jeffrey Myers of J. Myers Primitives co-curated an exhibition titled Shaman, which was held at the former’s Upper East Side gallery space a stone’s throw from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Zarember and Myers brought together a fine collection of important shamanistic paraphernalia used to aid the shaman as he (or she) entered the spirit world. The exhibition sought to establish the cultural similarities in art forms used across Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Masks, carved into both human and animal appearance, noise makers, rattles, drums, bells, and whistles were used to summon the spirits. Amulets and charms carved from sea mammal bone, antler, and wood were important in assisting the shamanistic ceremony and transformation. The show featured nineteenth-century shamanistic rattles from the Northwest Coast; Eskimo masks, amulets and drums; Australian Aboriginal spirit conjurers; African fetishes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Tibetan shamanistic scepters and drums. This ambitious show closed on May 31, 2013, but elements from it can be seen on the gallery’s website. NEW APPOINTMENT Denver, PA—Based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Morphy Auctions has rapidly become a major player in the general antiques market since it was founded in 1997. It has been dealing successfully with a wide variety of material ranging from toys to antique weapons to art pottery. Recently, it recognized an unfilled niche market, that being prehistoric American artifacts, which is an active and substantial field that has relatively few accessible outlets. The auction house an- AESTHETIC MEETINGS Paris—The exhibition to be held from May 30 to June 29, 2013, at Galerie Meyer represents a contrast between two distinct art forms. Decided on during a jazz concert with Camiel van Breedam—one of the most important practitioners of assemblage art in Belgium—playing trombone, the idea of the exhibition Objects & Assemblages by Camiel van Breedam came to Anthony J. P. Meyer as a way of paying tribute to the work of this talented artist. As a master in the art of composing striking works from all sorts of elements that have lived another life, she has selected objects to appear in the exhibition that have diverse subjects, for example, nature, music, Paris, or simply tribal art. Highlights from among this wide-ranging group of artworks include a suspension hook from the Middle Sepik in Papua New Guinea and an Eskimo ancestral effigy. RIGHT: Shaman’s amulet. Possibly Bella Bella, British Columbia. 19th century. Whalebone. L: 16.5 cm. Tambaran Gallery, New York. ABOVE: Double-faced raven rattle. Bella Bella, British Columbia. C. 1850. Wood, mineral pigment. H: 21.3 cm. Tambaran Gallery, New York. LEFT: Suspension hook. Lake Chambri, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Galerie Meyer, Paris. LEFT: Ancestor figure. Eskimo, western Alaska. 18–19th century. Galerie Meyer, Paris. RIGHT: Camiel van Breedam, M.E.vorm N° 4, 2006. Galerie Meyer, Paris.
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