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... AfriCOBRA and the Black Arts Movement in 1960s Chicago Napoleon Jones-Henderson Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring 2012 98 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-1496516  © 2012 by Nka Publications (left to right) Nelson Stevens, Napoleon Jones-Henderson...

...Delinda Collier Steve McQueen’s retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago argued for a relationship between his gallery work and his current cinematic productions. Opening a year before the release of his successful 12 Years a Slave , this retrospective exhibition demonstrated McQueen’s...

...Romi Crawford 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 attends to the various loci that promote black...

...George E. Lewis 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 discusses the work of the Association...

... Studies Department, School of the Art Institute 7 See Amanda Ripley, "The Rules of Interrogation," Time, of Chicago. I would also like to thank Angle Dietz for May 17, 2004, p. 46. Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic...

..., was the closing event of “Black Col- practices as well as those emerging from musical, lectivities,” a conference that unfolded during the performative, and institutional contexts, thereby day at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago offering an unprecedented opportunity to consider and that had begun...

... student. Born in ebrating the process.” Barbara Jones Hogu was a founding 1938 in Chicago, she received a BA from Howard University, member of AfriCOBRA. AfriCOBRA—an artist collective a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an consisting of painters, photographers, printmakers...

... the to be cons ide red along two preapproved and con• annual MFA exhibition at the School of th e Art tin gent tra cks. Seeking expressions of black pride, Institute to demand the removal of a portrait on e strategy simply counters the other approach depicting Chicago's first African American ma yor th...

..., figure within Sudanese or African art movements, Pennsylvania (1976); and the Art Institute of Chicago (1973). His but also within global modern and contemporary work can be found in permanent collections, including the Sharjah...

..., no. 9 (1938), featuring work by Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida (1891 1984). Art Institute of Chicago Archives, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries 38 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 Revolutionary art from Mexico with its themes of nonwhite people engaged in anti-imperial struggle...

..., has tragi- cally new power in our era of Black Lives Matter. The stenciled word BANG beneath the image of a Sound of Silence, 1978. Lithograph on paper, 25 1/8 x 35 5/16 in. Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Fisher Fund. © Charles White Archives Cutler-Bittner Nka 147 Hope for the Future, 1945...

...Blake Stimson 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 places the informal as a social ideal within a larger...

... Wor groupness — I was initially asked to support as a funder. I was asked — as part of an institution, the University of Chicago Arts and Public Life Initia- tive...

... 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 conversation followed presentations by Theaster Gates and Romi Crawford...

.... Thomas at A Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, September 1934. Black-and-white photograph with printed border. Source: Alma Thomas Papers, ca. 1894 2001, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. Photographer unknown shows. She pursued further art and art...

... on the floor created a Technicolor to what good use this fantasy fruit could serve, a installation the viewer was enclosed inside, rather tions such as Judy Chicago’s Feminist Art Program skyline. The garden-like landscape was peppered video playing in the corner, Ethnography of No than exterior...

... Mudekezera, Ditshekedi Ghislain, sense of place. Luntumbue made it a priority and Gabriele Salmi, Elaine Sullivan, Susan Gagliardi, and Maureen succeeded to a remarkable degree, thanks to the Murphy. 1 Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? (Chicago...

... of Contemporary ry were focused on again in the media. Following his receiving African Art 10 (Spring/Summer 1999): 67. NEA funding in the mid 1990s, his use of public funds was ques• 7 Suzanne Blier. African Vodun: Art Psychology and Power. Chicago: tioned...

... and the American Slave Trade (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011); Paul D. Kaplan, Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020); Sarah Thomas, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition (London: Paul...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019150 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917204 © 2019 by Nka Publications SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER BROOKLYN MUSEUM SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 FEBRUARY 3, 2019 In recent decades, exhibition program...