A book about private collections was just published in Russia with a chapter on the Raskin collection.

The paintings at the show were by contemporary African American artists,

and the sculptures and masks were tribal African from our collection

To see all the items exhibited at this show, type African-American in the search window at the top right of this page

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Fertile, Frightful, Divine!

African Tribal Art from the Raskin Collection

June 24 - July 22, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday June 24, ~ 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Lecture: Friday, July 8,  6:30 PM

News article about the exhibit

Alfa Gallery

108 Church Street
New Brunswick, NJ  08901
Phone/Fax:(732) 296-6720
E-mail: info@alfaart.org

Art Installation

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco "Super Normal" June 19 - Sept 5, 2010

Bronze leopards from our collection made a big splash as a part of a solo project by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard/Rod Bianco "Super Normal" in Amsterdam.

African Art Exhibit

Art Gallery, Utica College, Utica NY

AFRICAN Masquerade & The Collector's Dilemma September 6 – 25, 2010

A Pende Mask purchased from our website was featured with masks from the collection of William H, Gotwald, PhD.

TV Show Appearance

"The Big C" TV Series

Dogon sculpture from ArtTribal appeared in the Showtime series "The Big C". You will recognize the actors in the series:

Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me, The Truman Show, Mystic River),
Oliver Platt (The West Wing, The Bronx is Burning, Frost/Nixon),
Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) and
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)

The role of our Dogon piece? A decorative one! First of the 13 episodes premiered on August 16th.

Cameo Apearance in a Documentaty

Gateways to Faerie released in September 2010

Five masks from our Museum site www.zyama.com made a delightful cameo appearance in a new documentary film "Gateways to Faerie." You may be familiar with creations of John Curtis Crawford, the artist whose faerie houses are the subject of this film. Throughout his artistic career, John created, built and manipulated various creatures, dinosaurs, and aliens, as well as fanciful characters for Jim Henson's Muppets. His work has won numerous awards including one from the Cannes Film Festival for Special Effects.