...Kristen Windmuller-Luna African architecture is having a moment in European museums. Joining the crowd is AFRICA: Architecture, Culture, and Identity , an ambitious and contradictory exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Hummelbæk, Denmark, June 25, 2015–October 25, 2015. Divided...

... demand and offer them up Africa, and colonial-period African art. art installations that take advantage to the world for viewing and aesthetic of these structures of portable and consumption. In some cases, their Notes architectural abundance.1 Further- original functions are preserved: bro...

... the Amanda Gilvin is a Five College Mellon resonances between Roy’s and James’s Postdoctoral Fellow in African Art and work to cement his core argument Architecture at Mount Holyoke College...

... to consider the Iscotch, youthful followers of the Shembe religion identifiable by their mix of European and Zulu sartorial traditions. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013...

... few if any recognized course in Tropical Architecture. However, this was only pub• African architects until the end of the 1950s, when foreign- lished in 1974.11 In the meantime, practitioners had technical trained figures including Alex Ekwueme and Olumide...

...• not a problem if it helps people approach and learn a little bit about ments of African architecture, but above all these are not architec• my work. But I do not think our works are related. ture. These constructions are like altars where I can pray and make offerings and perform magic. Africa...

...Barbara Murray In 1962, African and international delegates met in Africa for the First International Congress of African Culture. This little-known event showcased the superb aesthetics and power of both classic and contemporary African arts, refuted bias and misrepresentations, and demonstrated...

... experimen- tation with the formal syntaxes of African art and architecture, Nwoko won critical acclaim for his 1966 – 68 terra-­cotta sculptures inspired by ancient...

... conclude that TransAfrican is possibly a more useful metaphor than transnationalism to understand how these artists, one German, one African American, reveal their own identity and black identity through their art practice. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 Winold Reiss Romare Bearden...

... of African sculpture that speaks of a cosmopolitan vision in sculpture, the adobe architecture, and the landscape 90 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 Grazing Sheep, 2012. Watercolor, 53 x 38 cm. © Amir Nour. Image courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation of his homeland...

... n January 1945, the émigré German architect Ernst May was busy re ning a new kind of mod- I ular housing architecture for use in the grow- ing East African city...

... n January 1945, the émigré German architect Ernst May was busy re ning a new kind of mod- I ular housing architecture for use in the grow- ing East African city...

... of Brown s collages, as mentioned in the essay s title, 44 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434980 © 2022 reprinted from Marshall Brown and James Glisson, eds., The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown Marshall Brown, 14-09-23, 2014. From the series...

.... to know our friend, even when they are no longer present to look back at us.1 In 2015, Okwui became the curator and first African director for the 56th Venice Biennale, which My friend, Okwui Enwezor, is no longer present, was the coming together of years of conversations, and yet he lived a life...

..., he had banknotes designed with symbols of art and architecture dis- played on a wooden desk with a glass top; in the latter, banknotes with im- portant European artists who were in- Museum of Contemporary African Art, 1997 – 2002, “Library,” Tate. spired by African art, such as Picasso...

..., both of Afri- can art, see Hess, Art and Architecture, 162–76. can belief systems and of communal sensibilities. In Congolese 7. Bearden and Henderson, History of African-­American Art- belief systems the spiral constitutes a cosmogram, as Thompson ists, 476...

...Michael Gresty Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 i •! 11 • PJ V |it J?p I...

... of architectural Europe's modernists to have discovered universal modernism and Egypt's shifting political and cul• solutions to contemporary living, Fathy's architec• tural contingencies, other artists and intellectuals tural response was an attempt to forge local, in Africa and the African diaspora...

... shimmering skin—this paper traces Baker’s spectacular invention of “skin-fashion” and its importance for how we think about style and racial visibility today. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Josephine Baker skin-fashion performance race and style SKIN FASHION...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ARCHITECTURE AS COLONIAL DISCOURSE ANGELA FERREIRA'S MAISONS TROPICALES Angela Ferreira, Maison Tropicale, 2007, installation view (detail), Portuguese...