Tribal Art

Is an auction house's loss a gallery's gain? Pilar Ordovas collaborates with former Sotheby's specialists for African and Oceanic art show

The exhibition, Dialogues, pairs 20th and 21st century art by the likes of Picasso, Adam Pendleton and David Hammons with the objects that inspired it

Anna Brady

Object lessonspreview

From a prehistoric ivory head to a painting once owned by Barbara Walters: our pick of November’s auctions and fairs

Plus, an expressive Fragonard and an Ed Ruscha text work from the Emily Fisher Landau collection

Aimee Dawson and Carlie Porterfield

Art marketarchive

Tribal art attracts Modern collectors

A new breed of buyer is crossing over from modern and contemporary art and acquiring the top pieces in every field

Anny Shaw

Antiquities & Archaeologyarchive

Brussels Non-European Art Fair fair hit by weak dollar and stay-away collectors

Paris auctions were poor except for Pre-Colombian works

Amy Page

Art marketarchive

Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art

Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention

Brook Mason

Cultural policyarchive

From primitive to art back to ethnology: too much zeal, says leading collector

Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art

Eugene Victor Thaw

Benin Bronzesarchive

Benin bronzes take limelight at sales of tribal art in London

Tribal art expected to do well at upcoming sales

The Art Newspaper