41 ABOVE AND RIGHT: Tunics. West Africa, 17th century. Weickmann Collection. © Ulm Museum. Photos: Oleg Kuchar. LEFT: Seydou Keita, untitled, 1956–1957. © Seydou Keita, with the kind permission of the Walther Collection. BELOW: Grace Ndiritu, Still Life: Green Textiles, 2005–2007. © Grace Ndiritu with the kind permission of the Walther Collection and the artist. MUSEUM News WOVEN IDENTITIES Ulm—From June 7, 2013, to January 12, 2014, the Ulmer Museum will present Woven Identities, an exhibition featuring African textiles and photographs from the Weickmann and Walther Collections. Built around the two oldest complete cotton tunics known from West Africa, acquired by Christoph Weickmann in the middle of the seventeenth century, the exhibition will offer an interesting dialog via African photographs and video creations drawn from the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm. This comparison will demonstrate that defining values accorded to textiles in Africa have transcended both time and artistic media. NEWS FROM THE MET New York—Early this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Julie Jones, the noted pre-Columbian art scholar who has been curator in charge of the department of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas for more than two decades, would be retiring at the end of March. Her position has been filled by Alisa LaGamma, an Africanist who has been a curator in the department since 1996 and who has produced some remarkable exhibitions, including Art of the Central African Reliquary (2007–2008) and Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures (2011–2012), to name just two recent ones. She is also a frequent contributor to these pages. We wish her well with her new position, which will allow her to guide one of the world’s great tribal art collections in fresh directions over the coming years. Also regarding the Met, the Association of Art Museum Curators in May announced the recipients of its annual awards for excellence in 2012. In the category of Best Small Exhibition, the prize went to Yaëlle Biro’s African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde, which explores the advent of African art in New York between 1910 and 1920 and its impact on the art scene. The show can be seen at the museum until September 2, 2013, and was the subject of our special issue last year. Congratulations to Yaëlle and to the museum for this excellent exhibition.
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