SAN FRANCISCO IN FEBRUARY San Francisco—Featuring more than 100 dealers under a single roof, the 28th annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show (SFTTA), will be held, as always, in the Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center February 6– 9, 2014. For nearly three decades, this vetted show has brought together a remarkable selection of tribal art and textiles from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The range among the estimated 15,000 objects offered at the event runs the gamut from museum quality for the connoisseur to attractive items that can draw in beginning collectors. The event’s opening gala on the evening of February 6 benefits the Department for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas as well as the Department of Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The intro exhibition for this year’s event will be titled Masks Then and Now: Inspiration and Interpretation, assembled by dealer Thomas Murray and featuring antique tribal masks from the Himalayas and Indonesia together with contemporary works by sculptor Mort Golub from his “Shamanic Mask Series.” Two weekends later, from February 21–23, the Marin Show: Art of the Americas will be held at the San Rafael Civic Center, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Now in its thirtieth year, this event will showcase more than 150 dealers focusing on antique American Indian, Pre-Columbian, and Spanish Colonial art, as well as contemporary American Indian and Latin American paintings and sculpture. The main hall emphasizes antique material including jewelry, textiles, baskets, pottery, beadwork, sculpture, photography, paintings, books, and more. For anyone with an interest in the traditional arts of the Americas, this is a mustsee destination. ART in motion Left top to bottom: Painted shield. Dayak, Borneo, Indonesia. Farrow Fine Art Gallery. Tapa. Teptep, Finisterre Mountains, Papua New Guinea. Michael Hamson Oceanic Art. Shamanic mask. Népal. Thomas Murray. Upper right: Shield, okumba. Luo, Kenya. Galerie Patrick et Ondine Mestdagh. Right: Male figure. Baule, Côte d’Ivoire. Farrow Fine Art Gallery. ARMAN THE COLLECTOR New York City—The Paul Kasmin Gallery is currently presenting Arman the Collector: The Artist’s Collection of African Art, a selection of artworks and artifacts from the noted artist’s renowned private collection, now administrated by the Arman Marital Trust. The exhibition is comprised of twenty pieces from Arman’s collection of African art. Similar to artists like Picasso and Gauguin, Arman was a leading collector of African art. His practice as a collector, similar to artist-collectors today like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Damien Hirst, was to collapse the distinction between the collector and the artist. For Arman, his approach to collecting and what he collected was in direct dialogue with his artistic practice. His iconic “accumulations” combined large numbers of similar objects (musical instruments, clocks, etc.) into singular, unified pieces. His collection of African art can be viewed as an extension of the collector’s impulse seen in his work. According to Arman, “I collect because collecting is part of my makeup. I’ve always done it. I’ve always accumulated, much more than I’ve collected. And by accumulating, I’ve always been surrounded by objects.” This noncommercial installation can be seen until January 11 at the gallery’s 293 Tenth Avenue location.
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