... in the 2010 travel- service give me comfort and joy. Environment and residence ing exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black supply the necessary agitation to cause me to create. There Atlantic. is a whole world to see. I plan to see as much as possible...

...James Smalls This article constitutes part of my continuously evolving fascination and research into the life, legacy, and visual significance of Féral Benga (1906–57). It foregrounds, in particular, the critical discourses surrounding (Afro)modernism generated by his presence in, and influence...

... of life. Those who lived continent, celebrated Kente for her ability to translate the “Afro lifestyle” wore Afro hairstyles and Afro- as “beautiful” and fashion-forward in either “modern look garments and listened to soul music. In South Western dress or traditional Zulu beadwork.”2 Kente’s Africa...

..., and synthesize the described as “double consciousness,” developed various artistic traditions and cultural resources Afro-­modernism, which, in its musical manifesta- constitutive of African postcolonial modernity. tion, as Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. noted, “consisted of Although it is less obvious today...

... on Discovering Her Pride in Her African Roots,” The Guardian, March 22, 2013, www.guardian Notes .co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/taiye-selasi-afropolitan-memoir. 1 Michael Hanchard, “Afro-Modernity...

... never entrenched. She notes a in Harlem, 2008); Tanya Barson, Peter the conquistador silhouettes beneath documentary framework as a common Gorschlüter, et al., Afro Modern: Journeys his spikey armor. Ogunji connects her starting point for several of them, as through the Black Atlantic (London...

... For example, Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic (Tate Liverpool, 2010) and Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary (Whitechapel Gallery and New Art Gallery Walsall, 2005). 48 See Matthew Weseley, Robert Colescott: The Untold Story, in Art and Race Matter: The Career of Robert...

... Culture (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2023). 7 Édouard Glissant, Conversation with Edouard Glissant, by Manthia Diawara, in Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, ed. Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschlüter, trans. Christopher Winks (Liverpool and London: Tate, 2010), 70, quoted...

...Claire Tancons Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 CHRIS OFIU'S WITHIN REACH 'Afro Kaleidoscope' 2002 (detail), 2003. Glass and steel. Installation at British Pavilion, 50 Venice Biennale, 2003. Courtesy...

... tions to the photography of the 1960s and 1970s in work in particular seem to imitate actors and pop Africa. Den Muso tells the story of two young peo• music stars from B-movies and magazines from ple—Tenin and Sekou—caught in the struggle the West. The dress styles—tight shirts, Afro-hair...

... • November 2015 to configure her 136th Street townhouse into a She advertised Walker products extensively in luxurious beauty salon and grand upstairs living the Baltimore Afro-American (The Afro), the quarters. In October 1927, when she converted Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender...

... dynamics of the art worlds they are invited to enter. Perrin M. Lathrop is assistant curator of African art at the Princeton University Art Museum and cocurated the nationally touring exhibition African Modernism in America (2022 24). Notes 1 Adriano Pedrosa, History, Histórias, in Afro-Atlantic...

.... Kim, the museum's theoretically correct appropriations of popular culture."2 Smith's DEREK CONRAD MURRAY assistant curator, "Black Belt" sought to chart Afro-Asian cross- words aptly describe the aura of superficiality that permeates the pollination...

... but which are aligned with a col- and African and Afro-­American music, of useful lective pattern of existence, impacted and sustained approaches to rhythm. This discovery moved them by long-­held cultural values without compromising from the conceptual to the practical.”6 aesthetic standards.”4...

..., in Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi, ed. Okwui Enwezor (New York: Prestel, 2017), 258 59. 14 Glissant, cited in Manthia Diawara, Conversation with Édouard Glissant Aboard the Queen Mary II (August 2009 in Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, ed. Tanya Barson and Peter Gorschlüter (Liverpool: Tate...

..., Moorland-­Spingarn Research established the Denishawn School of Dance, which devised a Center (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2005), 191. popular technique of music visualization for modern dance and 22. Loïs Mailou Jones, “The African Influence on Afro-­American trained, among others, Martha...

... forms, from the revered Afro bloc Ilê Aiyê in Bahia, Brazil, to the carnivals of Mindelo, Cape Verde; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; and the Carnival of Vitória in Luanda, Angola. These celebrations highlight the power of Carnival to amplify marginalized voices and solidify national identities in areas of rich...

... is design. Ofili's pasting of Black faces, afros and rear ends, cut out surrounded by flying buttocks and vaginal lips cut out of porn maga• from magazines, on his canvasses recalls Romare Bearden's signature...

... on the philosophy in the Americas. The most important part of Conwill’s viewers to recognize the artwork among these is Robert Farris Thompson’s 1983 as an expression of intended meaning while sens- book Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American ing the lack of descriptive language with which to Art...

.... Perry Ferguson: I suggest that there is no such thing in America as a Negro art. Yeargans: I prefer the word Afro to Negro. We can speak of an Afro-­American art...