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 humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best. Since ...

At the south end of the vast first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in a room with big glass windows looking out on Central Park, stand nine extraordinary carved poles, tall and ...

What to make of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, dedicated to the arts of Africa, Oceania, and ancient America? Astonishing, frightening, and baffling are three ...

The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of cave art at three ...

THE anthropologist, when confronted with some of the more extreme pronouncements of æsthetic judgment on the primitive artist, was at one time perhaps a little too apt to regard them as unwarranted ...

Two exhibitions of objects of art are being arranged for this year, which will be of no little scientific, as well as aesthetic, interest. Of these, the first will illustrate the art of primitive ...