Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

The mystique of connoisseurship -- The universality principle -- The night side of man -- Anonymity and timelessness -- Power plays -- Objets d'art and ethnographic artifacts -- From signature to ...

ONE of the world’s great repositories of primitive art is Harvard’s Peabody Museum—where few people except students of anthropology ever set foot. Just across the Charles River, the Boston Museum of ...