2002 Media Files of the Antique Tribal Art Dealers... -
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Ellen Napiura Taubman was an organizer if the show.
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"The curators hope the show will help redefine the artists' creations as 'art rather than artifacts,' so they are no longer pigeonholed with the ethnographic and anthropological, said David Revere McFadden, chief curator of the museum and an organizer of the show with Ellen Napiura Taubman, the former head of Sotheby's department of Indian art.
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" 'Museums that are not looking at this as a source of collecting are really missing the boat,' said Ellen Napiura Taubman, a guest curator at the American Craft Museum in Manhattan for its show 'Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation,' which examines contemporary Indian art from the Southwest. 'You can no longer put Indian art off to the side.
I think it has just gotten too good.' Ms. Taubman, who started the American Indian department at Sotheby's in the 1970's, was at Indian Market with a contingent from the American Craft Museum.