![]() ![]() * ''BAMANA: THE ART OF EXISTENCE IN MALI,'' Museum for African Art, 593 Broadway, near Houston Street, SoHo, (212) 966-1313 (through March 3). Admission: $6 $3 for students and 62+ (Roberta Smith). Hours: Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. As a result art speaks for itself in a way that is rare in exhibitions of this kind, and it speaks in many different voices. Everything here is carefully realized, with a palpable deliberation that balances craft, material and usually creativity. Aspects of life and culture, as well as epochal historical events, move in and out of the picture. Against walls that at first seem shockingly bright, it displays an amazing, sometimes cluttered range of objects: American Indian pottery and baskets, Colonial paintings and folk art from North and South America, landscape paintings and portraits, all kinds of ceramics and furniture, as well as modernist and postmodernist abstractions. This dynamic, ecumenical reinstallation, drawn from the museum's vast holdings in 19th- and 20th-century American art and design, goes where few museums have successfully gone before and puts art and history on an equal footing. * ''AMERICAN IDENTITIES: A NEW LOOK,'' Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, (718) 638-5000 (permanent). Admission: $10 $5, students and 65+ (Michael Kimmelman). Hours: Sundays and Tuesdays through Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. The Burton show cleverly gives a fresh twist to the Tut craze, but the older photographs stick longer in the mind because they seem haunted from across a gulf of a century and a half. Half a century later Harry Burton photographed the excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb mixing Hollywood-style shots of Howard Carter uncovering Tut's mummy for the illustrated newspapers with documentary pictures made solely for the archives, which have an unintended modern beauty. Pioneering works, these photographs have a virgin authenticity conveying the amateur photographer's amazement at seeing places through a device whose uncanny ability to capture those sights doubled the amazement. The show includes obscure figures like Ernest Benecke, a French wool trader of German descent, whose images are more remarkable for seeming accidental and serendipitous, and Théodule Devéria, whose photograph of the tomb of Ptahmose, the chief steward to Ramses II, is the only evidence of a site since reburied and lost beneath shifting sands. ''Along the Nile'' is a gem of an exhibition of early, mostly amateur photographs of Egypt, including Maxime Du Camp's famous view of the colossal half-buried face of Ramses II, with an assistant posing on top of the sculpture, the ancestor of all those shots of Mom and Uncle Burt squinting into the camera and smiling next to the Sphinx. * ''ALONG THE NILE: EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF EGYPT'' AND ''THE PHARAOH'S PHOTOGRAPHER: HARRY BURTON, TUTANKHAMEN AND THE METROPOLITAN'S EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION,'' Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710 (through Dec. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should be checked by telephone. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. You can also find the artist you are looking for by browsing the last name of the artist.A selective listing by critics of The Times of new or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York museums and art galleries this weekend. You can search signatures in the regular search or by browsing the last name of the artist.įor artist's monograms and initials we have developed a special monogram search. ![]() Moreover, the database currently contains 369,592 signatures and 2,327,543 photos of artwork. On you will find price information on 3,861,589 pieces of art sold over the last couple of years. Just enter the name of the artist, click Search and value your artwork! #ERNEST AND THE PALE MOON DAVIDSON FINE ARTS PLUS#gives you the latest hammer prices on art from auction houses worldwide, plus valuable additional information. With this art appraisal tool you can value your fine art by comparing it with recent auction prices of similar pieces. ![]()
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