I’ve discovered Pinterest as an amazing place to hunt for heads. So far its been mostly high quality photos of African masks, much better then those I was able to shoot through the glass at various ethnographic museums. Here is a link to some of my “pins”. If anybody reads this and actually follows the […]
Gabriel Ben-Haim is a Haifa sculpture, and his studio is located at the “pyramid” complex of artist studios, one that used to be a school and was recently renovated. The place fits very well into the topography of Vadi Salib, a former Arab neighborhood that was turned into a slum housing poor emigrants from north […]
A solo sculpture exhibition on a bridge in Paris
Street art in a short street in Paris
I have visited this place a year ago, and for some reason (having to do with age, no doubt) the name of the artist escaped me. No problem, one can search by image on “google image search” and an image of one of his sculpted heads yielded a precise result instantly. Here are some of his […]
head hunting at the Fontainbleu palace
The Israel museum in Jerusalem, besides having wonderful architecture, has a top-notch collection of pre-columbian art. A good place to find “heads” of magnificent imagination.
Paris is a “head rich” city, perhaps with the highest concentration of images of the human visage of any city. Here are some “heads” hunted during an afternoon stroll there. Many more to come…
Another artist producing amazing heads: Romuald Hazoumè (born 1962 in Porto Novo) is an artist from the Republic of Bénin. Hazoumè is also known for his mask series. He started this phase of his art in the mid-1980s. These masks, made from discarded gasoline canisters, resemble those used in traditional African culture and ceremonies. In explaining these […]
Beau Dick is a native Canadian, or “first nation” person, of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation’ living in the island of Vancouver. He is an “artist” not in the western sense of the word as his masks have ritual functions and are thus not “autonomous” art. A number of his works are presented at the new Athens museum […]
