The exhibition will continue through September. Wednesday through Friday, noon to 5 on Saturday and 1 to 5 on Sunday. Simmer hours at the MUseum of Primitive Art are 11 A.M. The impression of Voltaic art created by the exhibition, organized by Susan Vogel, assistant curator, and installed by the infallible Douglas Newton, curator, is one of intense spirityal expression with extraordinary formar elegance. ![]() admiration and perhaps further investigation” of the art of the Upper Volta peoples-the Mossi, Bobo, Lobi and Kurumba.Īdmiration is certainly easily inspired here. The show's purpose, as stated on the checklist, is simply to “arouse curiosity. “Sculpture of Upper Volta,” with 40 examples drawn about half and half from private collections and the museum's own, is in no way a definitive show or even a cross section of the art of this region in the Western Sudan, a republic since its independence from France in 1960. Primitive Art-still functioning at 15 West 54th‐Street pending its absorption by the Metropolitan-is the latest pleasure in the field. A small but beautiful exhibition at the Museum of. Brussels may have the best Congolese material and the Musee de I'Homme in Paris has some unrivaled pieces, but New York, with the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Primitive Art and important private collectors who are generous in lending for exhibition, is hard to beat for a combination of anthropological range and esthetic quality. Everything considered, New York City must be the best place in the world to see African sculpture.
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