I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

This article posits a relation between the demise of "primitive art" and the revival of individual creativity as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Scarcely 100 years have passed since the ...

The mystique of connoisseurship -- The universality principle -- The night side of man -- Anonymity and timelessness -- Power plays -- Objets d'art and ethnographic artifacts -- From signature to ...