... for that matter, exhibitions, including Art Through the Eye of the Needle, where I knew very little of Ethiopian history and close to A Doll’s House, Beauty and Pleasure in South African Con- nothing about my grandfather’s role as a historian, since temporary Art, Equatorial Rhythms, The Storytellers: Narra...

... position. Evelyn’s ability to mix the contemporary with the historical in such acts of reconstructive storytelling, to respond sensitively yet provocatively to built environments, is impressive. It is time for someone to give him a public, possibly art-specific site in London or New York, where a wider...

... in powerful works that are anchored in outspoken political critique. The Storytellers The Storytellers: Narratives in International Con- temporary Art exhibition at the Stenersen Museum, Oslo, in 2012, was inspired by Latin American lit- erature and its distinct tradition of storytelling.9 Authors...

.... In the classic tradition, the documentary pho• In the majority of the images, this is effected by tographer has a lot of the character of Walter the strong (even remorseless) assertion of heavily Benjamin's storyteller—that member of a com• weighing straight lines, physical barriers...

...• Does she react to the poor his- ty breaks with traditional filmic toricization of her human ante- storytelling techniques and blurs...

... African Art 51 November 2022 the body. The displayed works and video performances throughout the exhibition invite visitors to become spectators witnessing this physical phenomenon of transformation in both the production process and the final work. Clay as storytelling and transmission from Ladi...

... Guggenheim Museum in New York, is, "How do we such as Touki Bouki (1972), and Hyenas (1992) a tourde address questions of representation, self-imaging, and force of symbolic storytelling that reveals his obsession artistic freedom when these initiatives are counteracted with the quest...

... of Mayhew’s work, in its “fleet- depiction, what Mayhew has described as “illustra- ing, illusory light,” with the art of Henry Ossawa tional” or “storytelling” art or, more disparagingly, Tanner, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins.14 as “primitivism.”8 These critical, public, and insti- Half a century ago...

... and ninety-plus works comprising Grief and Grievance span diverse media (from painting to video) and modes of making and storytelling (from the representational to the abstract, and the narrative to the symbolic). When assembled en masse by Enwezor, these works effectively dictate every sensorial aspect...

..., the group used storytelling and nity so often invoked in debates about Clifford explains how modernists and popular theater strategies and developed a black identity and art. From 1983 to 1986, ethnographers of the early 20th century variety of works...

... of verisimilitude provided by the portraiture to represent traditional Bamako con• camera, which set them apart from other modes of trasts nicely with the use of Sidibe's style to con• representation, such as oral storytelling and sculp• note the new and the challenge to tradition. ture. A brief overview...

... strengthened her stature as is surrounded with electric wires and dis• learn during the many years Angelica an artist of world class appeal. carded objects. The black figure is a female served as her hairdresser, a great storyteller. clad in the style of the 1950s. On the top...

... leave the show, we listen to Himid s poetic voice describe a seri­es of memories she composed for the unnamed characters (one hundred enslaved women and men) in her series Naming the Money (2019). These texts, evoking Saidiya Hartman s idea of critical fabulation a form of writing that uses storytelling...

..., as though the female jerba has little to say, or her body rarely carries the sound of history. Masculine bodies emphatically inundate the storytelling of silence and sound. The question then becomes whose voice and which voice have we been listening to? These works elicit a sensitivity to what...

... to a particular black community, but By refusing to tell the old stories, Burnett's films refuse the entire this time one that is no longer defined by economic depression. And structure of cinematic storytelling, and each of his films offers a dif• though Baby Brother, like Pierce's brother...

... the young artist with some of his poet and storyteller. Smith's world is peopled with both the mundane teacher's nonchalant and enthusiastic approach to the city. Smith also and extraordinary, and he captures the pulse of his Black community began droppingin at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where he...

... distinguished from one as mobile architecture, it will become a school in another. Audio and film pieces particularly suffer Kibera, Kenya, when the exhibition closes.5 While in the cramped space, with Emeka Ogboh’s dual- the multipurpose nature of these structures is clear, language storytelling...

..., Yarico loses not only her creolized or mixed-race population was the subject clothes and adornments (and of course her voice, of popular storytelling as early as the seventeenth as she no longer speaks for herself), her ethnicity century. Richard Ligon’s 1657 A True and Exact (she is imaged much...

... complexion. Also of interest alternative to racialized and gendered violence, in is the way each storyteller takes on the allegory as White Women the escape to something outside his- his own; they all recount it with the passion and tory or language seems nearly impossible. In fact, dignity...

... interpretative minimalism. “Striking and the domain of art history. An artist, historian, for their overt political content, Donkor’s paint- storyteller, community griot, political activist, and ings provoke an uncomfortable pleasure,” Lara educator, Donkor brings UK Diaspora to life from Pawson further...