...Elizabeth Robles This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged...

... at chronicling a black British history: the 1989 90 exhibition The Other Story: Asian, African, and Caribbean Artists in Post-War Britain.1 Given the historical tenuousness of black artists in British art history, this endeavor was a landmark exhibi- tion, conceived and curated by Rasheed Araeen and organized...

... as delinquent, sexually deviant, and a menace to society. The work of Rasheed Araeen is discussed, with particular relevance to his influential use of self-portraiture. The author also discusses mainstream media’s construction of the black male deviant with respect to aspects of the newspaper coverage...

... who Notes have refused to be deterred and influenced by the reversed James Gaywood, "Caught between Differences," unpublished, 1997. stereotyping of black culture in Europe, which Rasheed Araeen...

... by Culture: Modernity and Post• Rasheed Araeen in 1989. The modernity is certainly a valuable show was conceived as a study...

... event in the emerging new presence of con- temporary global art. Belting Nka 113 Rasheed Araeen, who participated in the event, later objected that Les Magiciens de la Terre did not represent the cultural heterogeneity of modernism from all over the world and that it had stabilized the division...

... through the efforts of Then, behind that swagger was a deep thinker, and Eddie Chambers, Rasheed Araeen, and many oth- he was also from Nigeria, like me. I knew then, at ers at the time. I, along with many Black artists of that very first meeting, that this guy was special. I my generation, were...

... of particular attitudes towards the past and the present. This is what makes it hard to have a fixed definition of moder• nity, as it is by nature fluid and constantly subject to renewal. Hence, the claim to modernity, as once suggested by Rasheed Araeen, is wide open and not necessarily a European...

..., the exhibition, viewers default to the discursive an efficient reference to immigration policy and frame of Pan-Africanism as an interpretive lens. prejudice at international airport arrivals for citi• As Rasheed Araeen asked in his analysis of zens of developing countries. The floor of the tun...

.... In the more interesting raising of this modernist corpus from its tomb, as in the work of Felix Gonzalez Torres, Gerhard Richter, Claudia Matzko, Rasheed Araeen and Mona Hatoum, one is eloquently alerted...

... Africa. I remember having lunch many years ago John Picton: In 1989 Rasheed Araeen curated a with colleagues, both academic and curatorial, at a show at the Hayward Gallery in London called conference of the Arts Council of the African Stud- The Other Story. It dealt...

... it of 1966, before being canonized as “minimalist” art “Africanized” in form and modernist in aesthetics, in the late 1960s.12 The inclusion of Nour and other where “Africanism” refers to a deliberate ideologi- non-Western artists such as Rasheed Araeen in the cal act and an aesthetic concern, which...

... on methods drawn from diasporic visual culture for example, an insistence on the porousness of boundaries and a genealogical view of knowledge/ power systems, which shift, agonistically, over time. See Richard Dyer, Rasheed Araeen in Conversation, Wasafiri 23, no. 1 (2008): 22 33. See also Mercer...

...., Chronology, in Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi, ism, and art history, see Rasheed Araeen, Modernity, Modernism, 274. and Africa s Place in the History of Our Age, Third Text 19, no. 4 31 Susan Vogel, Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui, di- (2005): 411 17. rected by Susan Vogel (Brooklyn, NY: Icarus...

... was founded in 1987 by the artist and theorist Rasheed Araeen together in ways that highlight the fast-growing inequalities and became a powerhouse for the development and distribution of Nielsen and Petersen Nka 93 postcolonial thinking in the 1990s and 2000s. Things, in All the World s Futures: La...