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VIDEOS OF InTERVIEW

SIFE INTERVIEWS: culture, teaching, women and other subjects

Interview: American Society of Landscape Architects

Le Vaudou: Fondation Cartier (Paris)

Interview on Picasso's Demoiselles with Coco Fusco at Brooklyn Rail

What's In a Name: African Art (Imo Dara)

Interview on Fair Use (with Patricia Aufderheide - CAA)

What's it worth? Boston Athenaeum

Interview on Ancient Ile-Ife with Yoruba Nation

INTERVIEW on Ile-Ife WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. for PBS AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS

INTERVIEW ON FILM: AFRICA'S AMAZONS IN EPIC WARRIOR WOMEN SERIES

Interview on Ife Art Risk and Power in the Athenaeum Review (Dallas)

LECTURES/
​VIDEOS

Picasso's Demoiselles (Harvard's Hutchins Center)

Les asen (Musee Barbier-Mueller - Geneva)

A Coptic Center in West Africa (The Courtauld - London)

How Some Yoruba Live Forever (Agents of Faith at the Bard Graduate Center)

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African Sculpture and Photography (Getty Conference)

Of Punchbowls and Gold (British Center - Yale University)

Medici and Africa (Harvard's Hutchin's Center)

Landscapes of Enchantment (Dunbarton Oaks)

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BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

The History of African Art

The Streets of Newtowne: a Story of Cambridge, MA.

Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Story of a Modern Masterpiece

Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity c.1300

African Vodun: Art, Psychology and Power

Royal Arts of Africa

Art of the Senses (co-authored)

Art of Jazz with. David Bindman and Vera Grant

The Anatomy of Architecture:
Ontology &  Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectur Expression

​Butabu: Adobe Architecture in West Africa

Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (co-Edited)

Gestures in African Art

Africa's Cross River

Asen - Memoires de fer forge (Eng. trans. Pt. I: History)

Asen - Memoires de fer forge (Eng Trans PT II: Artists, styles, form & Identity

Beauty and the Beast (Igbo & Ibibio Masquerades)

African Art as Theatre

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Articles
​and entries

Picasso and Africa

African Urban Past

Words without words: iconologology

Horses and Pots - Igbo Ukwu & Coptic

Matisse: Portraiture and Masking

Obalufon: Kings, Crowns, and Rites of Succession t Ife and other Yoruba Centers

Art in Ancient Ife

Le Cosmos

Cosmic References in Ancient Ife (African Cosmology)

Ife Religion and Art

Ife - La Laideur Necessaire

Vodun Art and Social History - Slavery

Art of Voodoo

Path of the Leopard - Dahomey Queen Nothers

Herskovits in Dahomey

Field Days - Herskovits

Arts of Assemblage: Dahomey

King Glele: Divination Portraits Pt. I

King Glele: Divination Portraits Pt. II

Benin - Place where Vodun Born

Vodun - Art Brutal

Sacred Arts of Vodou (UCLA)

Faces of Iron: Zangbeto

Musee Historique in Agbome (Dahomey)

Razing the Roof (Dahomey)

Abomey - A Plan for Obsolescence (Future of the City)

Europia: 19th Century Dahomey Portrayals of the West

Fon Asen Memorial (New Orleans)

Asen: Forging Memory

Les Poteries Vaudoues

The Woman, the Snake & the Ocean

la femme, le serpent, l'oceane

Meeting the Amazons (Zoos Humains)

Mort et Creativite (les Amazons)

Houses are Human (Tamberma)

The Dance of Death (Tamberma)

Antelopes & Anvils (Tamberma Iron)

Imagines Mundi (Tamberma Cosmology)

African Astronomy and Art

Imaging otherness in Ivory

Imaginarium: African Masks

Patina: Experiencing African Art

African Creation Myths as Political Strategy

Ritual: Critical Terms in Art History

Mimesis: Notes from the Field

African Votives (Action in Form) Button Text

Creative & Destructive (Gelede)

Beauty and the Beast (Igbo)

Anthropologies of Art

Truth & Seeing: On Magic, Custom & Fetish in Art History

Enduring myths of African Art (Guggenheim)

Art Systems & Semiotics

Shadow play: Reading Post-Modernism

African Art at the Crossroads

First Word: On African Art Research

Intro to Art in Africa (Visona et al)

Nine Contradictions in Contemp. African Art

Butabu: West Africa's Earthen Architecture

Vernacular Architecture

Dogon Restudied

Dogon Art and Architecture

Fon Monkey Figure

Art History & Autobiography

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