ART IN MOTION 72 BELOW LEFT: Headcrest. Bembe, DR Congo. First quarter of the 20th century. Wood, pigment, fi ber. Ex Henri Kamer, New York and Paris. To be offered at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show by Dimondstein Tribal Arts. LEFT: Bridge post fi nial, giboshi. Japan. 17th century. Bronze. H: 51 cm. To be offered at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show by Brandt Asian Art, London. ABOVE: Standing fi gure. Baule, Côte d’Ivoire. Wood. H: 51 cm. Ex Merton Simpson, 1957. To be offered at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show by James and Lin Willis Tribal Art. RIGHT: Shoulder yoke. Wurkum, Nigeria. Wood. H: 33 inches. Ex Bernard de Grunne, Brussels; Philippe Guimiot, Brussels; To be offered at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show by Dimondstein Tribal Arts. BELOW: Spinning wheel base (detail). Iban Dayak, Borneo. AD 1451–1629 (C-14 tested, 95% calibrated). Wood. H: 66 cm. To be offered at the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show by Thomas Murray Asiatica–Ethnographica. San Francisco in February SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN RAFAEL—This year is going to be a little different for the annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show. Long run by show promoters Caskey Lees, the event now has been acquired by Objects of Art LLC, which for many years has run the eponymous shows in Santa Fe and Los Angeles as well as the annual American Indian Art Show in Marin and the LA Art Show in Los Angeles. The show will be held in the same location as always at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, but the new managers plan to give it a signifi cant facelift. In addition to a reconfi gured fl oor plan and an overall new look, moving forward the entire event will have an overarching theme, Indonesia, in the case of this year. This does not necessarily mean that there will be more Indonesian art dealers on the show’s roster, but the associated programming will be Indonesian themed. The opening night event, which benefi ts the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, will have Indonesian catering and music, and subsequent lecture programs will also focus on Indonesia. A special exhibition titled Indonesian Textile Treasures: A Living Legacy will be a component of the show and will feature pieces from the Jakarta Textile Museum and the Curtis and Margaret Keith Clemson Collection, never before shown in the United States. Many of the more than 100 pieces in this exhibition will be for sale. What remains the same is the care with which the more than eighty participating dealers in the show are selected and the show-sponsored vetting to ensure that the stunning array of artworks from Africa, the Pacifi c Islands, Asia, Central and South America, and the Native American nations are of the highest quality and suitable for important collections. The show’s gala opening will be on the evening of Thursday, February 9, and the event will be open to the public February 10–12. The following weekend, February 17–19, The American Indian Art Show–Marin will be held in the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, just north of San Francisco. Now in its thirty-third year and with more than 100 dealers specializing in Native American art, both antique and contemporary, this is the most important showcase of Indian art on the West Coast.
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