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...Jonathan Frederick Walz [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Alma W. Thomas UNEXPECTED PRESENCE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE Jonathan Frederick Walz A 1934 sepia-toned photograph records the artist Alma W. Thomas s attendance at A Century of Progress International...

...John P. Murphy [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Charles White s Global Perspective John P. Murphy W hen Chicago-born artist Charles White traveled to the German Democratic Republic in the autumn of 1951, he discovered, to his surprise, that he was something...

.... The exhibition first and foremost tries to reunite artists who are foreigners, immigrants, or exiles, especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. Pulling from the etymology of romance languages, this concept of the stranger is mobilized to include queer artists, outsider...

...: GLOBAL DOI 10.1215/10757163-3886098 © 2017 by Nka Publications ©201710.1215/10757163-3886098 Nka by DOI...

...Tsitsi Jaji The large-scale Pan-African festivals held in Senegal, Algeria, and Nigeria (1966–77) are recognized as central to forging a transnational repertoire of cultural practices and memories that are the bedrock of a post-independence global black consciousness. Nevertheless, such festivals...

... diplomacy, a central policy thrust of Senegalese government since independence. Coincidentally, the mainstream art world had begun to reexamine the meaning of internationalism in the wake of neoliberal globalization, with groundbreaking exhibitions such as Magicians of the Earth at Centre Pompidou in Paris...

...Amelia Jones This article looks at Okui Enwezor’s theory of countering the art world’s “Westernisms” and his actualization of this theory in his organization of Documenta11 to mount an argument against the universalizing and Eurocentric conception of “global” art. It offers two examples of recent...

...Soraya Murray; Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ON ART AND CONTAMINATION Performing Authenticity in Global Art Practices Soraya Murray & Derek Conrad Murray ith the gradual shift of Western art- cal...

...Amanda Gilvin Scholars of African visual culture will be well served by Akin Adesokan’s recent book Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics , which offers a model for interpreting artworks within the many cultural and economic contexts in which they function. The book is structured...

... of immense social and political upheaval. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 African Fashion Afro Look Drum magazine Black Consciousness movement Princess Elizabeth of Toro Global THE “AFRO LOOK” AND GLOBAL BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS Tanisha Ford n 1972...

...Bisi Silva Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 An 'other' stop on the global art trail. The recent boom in Biennales and mega-exhibitions especially outside the center of the Western art metropolis made 1997 an ex...

... of contents flict: Rethinking Contemporary Art during Global Crisis” (2008–9), he is currently a research fellow at straight to your inbox, the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new book allowing you to stay current...

... at Arsenale, 59th Venice Biennale. With the additional support of Robert A. Matta Arts & Culture Association. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès, Paris Selene Wendt is an independent curator, writer, and founder of The Global Art Project who is currently the curator for Vanderbilt University s...

... also exhibited widely, including in Paris, Rome, Egypt, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. This international movement is not unique, though, but consistent with the similar movement of Gharbaoui s peers. Iftikhar Dadi argues that, in light of postcolonial and globalization...

... [for] the Venice Biennale an ordinary rather than exceptional event?64 Another question is about what happens to dissident art when its dissent becomes a selling point in the global art market, and of the compromises that artists may make to avoid going too far in the pavilions of nations where xenophobia...

..., not just from the specific site of culture and history but in a more critical sense, from the standpoint of a complex geopolitical configuration that defines all systems of production and relations of exchange as a consequence of globalization after imperialism. 2 Insisting on understanding creative...

... an ethnographic lens as distant others who are healers or doctors living outside their embodied local and global histories. Giorgis Nka 47 Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation...

...- vidual Stories and Shared Histories of a Global Narrative,” I discuss the predominance of nar- Irative forms in contemporary film and video. This particular topic...

... the film signals a need to value the spirit of Africa in the see, for instance a Balinese dancer and jazz music. What is context of globalization. Could you elaborate in more detail the significance of this? on the strategies you rely on to get this message across? TE: I’m...