...Laurie Ann Farrell Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 LOOKING IX 9BOTH WAYS Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora If travel is searching...

.... She specializes in colorful towers of bowls and buckets or exporters, or all of the above, con- twentieth-century African art, arts of displayed in oscillating patterns to sciously repurpose objects according the African diaspora, Islamic arts in attract buyers, inspired him to create to market...

... it rightly deserves while contributing to the fields of American art, African American art, contemporary art, and diaspora art. The introduction sets the stage for contemporary readers to grasp the art world of the 1980s at the same time that it identifies Basquiat’s multiple positionalities as a middle...

..., Disparities and Deformations, 16. and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora, 21. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., Monster Theory: Reading Culture examining African American, Caribbean, and black (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 4. British artists in modern and contemporary...

... described as Africa interest within the African American world, found in the religious arts of the continent and its diaspora a rich and generative source for sculptural assemblages and ritualized performance. On the continent, similarly, Abdoulaye Konate, Moustapha Dimé, Tapfuma Gutsa and others, created...

... important is it for contemporary African hierarchy of established and emerging artists, which would art and art of the African diaspora to negotiate the legacies not have been the case if the names of the artists were of modernisms, its utopias of commonality? included. This would have taken...

... of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He currently serves as director of the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Notes 1 After Cairo, the exhibition traveled to the National...

... of Center for Women s and Gender Studies and the the exhibitions of art. The photographic essay docu- African and African Diaspora Studies Program at ments the multimedia event involving Indigenous Florida International University in Miami. and local forms of music, dance, and song while centering...

... as their new homes, and in the process, contributed to expanding the narrative to modern art history. Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art...

... of purpose, a new reason for making “art” “IMAGES”: positive images of Black pride, Black self-determination, weapon images in and for the struggle to heal the minds and the souls of Black folk throughout the African Diaspora. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Remembering...

... world of the ment was her long-­standing dedication to the art of 1960s and 1970s had been an important element in classical and contemporary Africa and its diaspora, African performance arts all along. particularly in Haiti and the United States. Even By the mid-­1960s Jones began...

...Salah M. Hassan The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet...

... to creativity in art and literature. Salah M. Hassan is the Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernitie, and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is currently serving as director of the Africa...

... and African Diaspora art at Princeton University. The Deep, 2017. Glue and ink on canvas, 40 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. © the artist ...

... is interested in, who aren’t generally has assisted with exhibitions at the Museum for African the kind of artists Okwui would show. And they are work- Art and Autograph ABP, and he is a contributor to The ing artists. Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies...

... to You, 33–50. several books and catalogues: Ethiopian Passages: 14. Ikem Stanley Okoye, “Nka Roundtable II: Contemporary Contemporary Art from the Diaspora (2003), In African Art History and the Scholarship,” moderated by Chika...

... of the divide. By supporting By maintaining an Afrofuturist imperative, artists such a boundary, proponents of traditional African in the African diaspora have access to a rich store of art ensure authenticity in techniques and materi- als. The digital divide...

... this an important reorientation, given the often constricted readings of African and African-diaspora art as somehow specific only to certain moments or themes. Here was an invitation to look from, and to, the regional specificities of African knowledge systems and histories in order to build toward a different...

... aspects of the editorial and production process. Eddie Chambers is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches African Diaspora art history. Notes 1 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power took place at Tate Modern, July 12 October 22...

... will always signify different things to different constituencies, but T waunii Sinclair has seen to it that its resonances with Black history and the African diaspora have been brought to the fore in a dramatic range of ways. Eddie Chambers is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History...