...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...

...Hans Belting Right from its opening in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) recreated modern art as a new myth that was rescued from European history and thus became accessible as an independent value for an American audience. Paradoxically, the myth stemmed from the opinion that modern art’s...

...Holiday Powers This article reviews Katarzyna Pieprzak’s book Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Post-colonial Morocco (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). The book covers the discursive usage of claims of modernity in Morocco from 1912, the beginning of the French Protectorate, up...

... The Artist’s Artist Cullen Washington in conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons I first saw Cullen Washington work in one of the open-­studio Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons:­ You use the title Hero’s areas at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Story...

... of institutions and indi- the Negress,” in Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of viduals. We offer our profoundest thanks to our generous spon- Modern Art, ed. Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz (New York: sors: first and foremost the Myers Foundations, which provide Museum of Modern Art, 2010...

...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 1994 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1994 ...

... démarches. Her work reminds us that the personal and political are never too far removed. Anita N. Bateman is associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Notes 1 Kobena Mercer, Introduction, in Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers (Annotating Art s Histories: Cross...

... 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...

... later, in 2005, I received a phone call in Rabat, Morocco: Hi, Abdellah. Four: Doha 2013. Okwui was the first speaker This is Okwui. How are you. I am on L appartement I invited to Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in 22 balcony; the space is great . . . . 1 Okwui was one of Doha for a talk on the Off...

... Pascal Polar Gallery, Brussels HM: As an African, I find that European art history is When I arrived in France, I went to museums to see the very limited. So I try to integrate my vision with this art, real works with the reproductions in mind. I remember being attempting to expand its...

... and 1970s. Cahan’s research into four museums—the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem—reveals how art institutions responded incrementally to black artists’ demands for equity. Despite the different degrees...

...Elvira Dyangani Ose From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. This article begins with part of Elvira Dyangani Ose’s ongoing...

...Steve Pantazis This review covers Beninese artist Meschac Gaba’s twelve-room installation Museum of Contemporary African Art (July 3–September 22, 2013), presented at Tate Modern in London, which acquired the work as part of a two-year program to highlight contemporary African art. The show offered...

... the seriousness and significance of the art he produced.” The artist’s place is even now much more secure in pop culture than in academe, so the Basquiat retrospective that opened at the Fondation Beyeler in 2010 and subsequently traveled to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris was not just a museum show...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner The recent exhibition Charles White: A Retrospective (Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 2018–January 13, 2019) offered a chance to consider the technical and iconographic breadth of an oeuvre that has been exhibited mainly in sporadic doses for the past few decades...

...Geoffrey Jacques The exhibition of prints Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now , curated by Judith B. Hecker at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, offered a view of South African art-making practice that flourished among all sectors of society during the apartheid years. The exhibition evoked...

... shows and retrospectives at mainstream Western museums and art galleries. Once could cite here the 2013 retropsective of Ibrahim El Salahi, which pre- miered at the Sharjah Art Museum and traveled to Tate Modern, or the major solo exhibitions afford- ed to artists such as El Anatsui, Yinka Shonibare...

... surface level the work dredges up the mistreatment of an individual due to a of the topics presented. Some pairs problematic paradigm of the Museum REVIEWS culture’s fixed notion of how the body or small groups of visitors talked over of Modern Art’s 1984 ‘Primitivism’ in and mind work. Our role...

... was director of the University Art Magdalene Odundo. Both had catalogues, and both Museum at UC Santa Barbara, where our program traveled, Renée’s to five venues and Magdalene’s to focused on modern and contemporary art (West- seven. My head spins to think how quickly this all ern, of course). In 1991...