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Art Blogs, art columns or art reviews? How ever labeled, our international team of volunteers review art exhibitions on the fine arts and often visit hidden gems that deserve more attention than they get in general. Smaller museum with an impressive collection of Tribal Arts: international renowned museums with world-famous collections of ethnographic art, whatever the case the Kunstpedia bloggers will not hesitate to give their personal thoughts on the exhibition or collection.

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Peru, Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon - A Multimillennial Perspective from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

“If we investigate only a little we discover that Peru, like the Aleph of Borges, is a small format of the entire world. What an extraordinary privilege for a country not to have an identity because it has all of them!”   Drawn from In Praise of R...


Ethereal Peru

Peru is one of six "cradles of civilization," from which a series of advanced societies emerged. Characterized by remarkable artistic expression and technological innovation, successive Andean cultures thrived among the peaks and valleys of the...


Mayan time and society, a voyage through Mayan cosmology and chronometry

2012 was a big year when it comes to global awareness of Mayan culture.  Unfortunately this has not been for the best reasons.  There has always been a great deal of misinformation surrounding America’s pre-Hispanic cultures, from human sacrifice ...


The Jade Masks of the Mayas: at La Pinacothèque of Paris

Maya funeral masks — primitive and ornate, yet sophisticated and regal jade carvings— are on exhibit outside of Mexico for the first time in history, offering a unique look at the illustrious Maya civilization. According to archeologists, the Maya...


Akan Goldweights in Belgrade, a retrospective

From February 16th and prolonged to August 20th, the African Art Museum in Belgrade, organized an interesting exhibition on Akan Goldweights, as I reported in my posting Akan Goldweights in the Balkan. As from the opening expectations were high. T...


Akan Goldweights in the Balkan

In my quest to seek information on private and institutional collections of Akan Goldweights, in preparation of an article, I was more than pleasantly surprised to discover the one and only tribal art museum in the Balkan. One would expect an ethn...


Art and Antique trade, cocky and free spirited? A new initiative proves otherwise.

A group of international tribal art dealers have joined forces and proceed to follow the principles of ‘together we are stronger’. They formed the Tribal Art Society in order to tackle the problem of the decreasing roll storefronts play in the cha...