... and experience from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 Feral Benga primitivism (afro)modernism African dance music-hall homoeroticism FÉRAL BENGA African Muse of Modernism James Smalls n 1923, at the age of seventeen, François Benga a central...

.... as serious artists."11 Even within the New Negro Perpener III has noted, "the careers of most movement, however, Maudelle did not embody African-American dancers were so poorly docu• the favored roles or appearance set forth for mented in dance history literature that questions...

... Shawn School of Dance.6 Always a thor- eager to paint another boldly colored work filled ough and inquisitive researcher, Jones went back to with African-­inspired masks and repeating design the original sources and studied traditional mask motifs. forms from...

... the influence and contributions of African culture to world culture. Although there had been two Congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs in Paris in 1956 and Rome in 1959, this was the first congress on the broader subject of African culture to be held on the continent. Encompassing visual art, music, dance...

...Elodie Silberstein Look Back at It (2016) is a cutting-edge interpretation of Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by African American multidisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. The work is a collage of magazine cuttings. The action is set in the vogue ballroom scene, a counterculture...

... and articulation of black masculinity. For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon, the black dandy’s look is highly tailored. He is a rebel—a modern-day representation of the African trickster. His style and identity generally contradict the stereotypes, boxes, categories, and ideas that a society has about him...

... in a common struggle. So my interest in Africa was not just about retracing roots or reveling in African music and dance. It was about forging a bond in the fight for human and civil rights. 27 This distinction bears on the lyricism of White s later work featuring African subjects that it was less a nostalgic...

... see a dialogue between West African expressive brilliance is and how its Bearden and Reiss on how to use the African mask, key concepts traverse as they inform the visual arts, how to structure space in the canvas, and how to music, and dance.3 be transnational without...

..., charlierose.com/videos/16971. 6 Charlie Rose, Whitney Biennial 14. 7 New York Close Up, Jacolby Satterwhite Dances, 6:54 7:17. 8 Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, NC: Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 202066 Nka Duke University Press, 2011), 88. 9 R. Kurt Osenlund, Jacolby...

... edge of danger Instead of a sleek black physique, skinny legs with that typically characterizes images of le primitif 16 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 Richmond Barthé, Feral Benga (Benga: Dance Figure), 1935. Bronze, 19 1/2 in. Courtesy Newark Museum...

..., debunking its meaning and defying Cheick Diallo, The Dance of the Empty Chairs, detail of installation at Ségou Art | Festival on the Niger, 2019. Wood, paper, metal, acrylic, bamboo, wire, calabash, thread, nylon cord, and charcoal. Photo: © H. Tissières Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November...

... in reputation, which in the vernacular of African American cultural imperialism, this traffic was often diasporic culture values the public performances represented as coming from the United States in the of speech, music, dance, sexual display, and prow- forms of music such as jazz, soul, and the blues...

... Picasso himself is pushed to the side.2 Nonetheless, Ringgold s interest in his art is expressed in the attentive appropriations of his works here as well as the Byzantine eyes and backdrop fracturing throughout her oeuvre intermittently, also informed by African textiles, as his cubism was by African...

... African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10435064 © 2023 by Nka Publications Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022. Room 3 featuring performers: Jacqui Dankworth and Sofia Jernberg, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Cristiano Corte Wendt Nka 121 Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022. Room featuring...

... in standing position and moves outward into the cross-media trajectory of free-flowing, freewheeling gestures associated with the fluid mobility of dance. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012...

... the mythology surrounding Monáe’s public presentation, as well as the styling of the videos for “Tightrope” and “Q.U.E.E.N.,” I argue that Monáe insists on a playfully clad and performative “embodied knowledge” as a basis for her android revolution. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

...Holland Cotter Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 ill EROS CRUISES THE MUSEUM IN A FILMMAKER'S DREAMS Holland Cotter he...

...• they danced in ceremonies. Carved of Europe while creating a bitter exis• sitions that are projected down onto gelede, or grandiose epa, masks15 were tence for so many Africans. As them...

...Thomas Mulcaire Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL Thomas Mulcaire JH...

... is so distinct and sleek that the prioritization of experiential viewing is hard to ignore. The first section of the exhibition, Double Consciousness, references W. E. B Dubois s assertion in 1897 that African Americans are born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world...