...Isaac Julien Curating at the My core artistic premise and point of departure to Royal Academy curate the first two galleries of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition 2020 was to 2020 pay homage to my friend, the late, great curator, writer, and poet, Okwui Enwezor...

... by the queen and the extension of membership in the Royal Academy to a handful. The article draws attention to the ways in which major London galleries such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Serpentine, and the Whitechapel have, over the course of the past two decades, hosted the first main-space solo...

...Kay Brown This essay outlines the formation of the Weusi Artists, begun in Harlem in 1965 as an African American artists’ collective. The word Weusi translates as “blackness” in Swahili. Together the artists founded a gallery and academy of fine arts and studies, both of which became great...

...: Are Ingrid Hotel is an art theorist and art critic and these carefully staged indoor- and outdoor photo• teaches anthropology of arts, aesthetics, and sociolo• graphs self-portraits or fictitious portraits? gy of arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She According to Fosso, this series...

... Partum, a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Lagtaâ also worked at the Poetry Office, founded founded Galeria Adres in ód , a special space for by Partum s husband, Andrzej Partum. Located in conceptual activities.14 She explored the notion of a small room in the attic of the Warsaw city...

...• the anthropologists of his day saw and as a propellant for the creation of ersity of Bologna and Fellow At Italian Bruly Bouabre mainly as a prophet, an other categories and hierarchies in the Academy for Advanced Studies, Colum• inventor of a system...

... Select Highlights Compiled by Ademola Olugebefola with Weusi Academy Members Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring...

... at the upcoming it is habited. Th e mask, however, is good and a good 1880 Royal Academy exhibition. If Th rop yielded bust might be made from it.”8 the cast to Williamson, he contended, “it would For the six months that followed, Ransome’s destroy the value of his work.”12 ostensibly...

... Paintings.2 The exhibi- tion followed the year after the Royal Academy of Arts elected Bowling a Royal Academician in May 2005, the first black British artist to be given the ac- colade in its history. The politicization of color is hard to avoid in Bowling s work. Despite a long, well-established career...

... a sane young African artist sit in a cities of Gonder and Axum, and to many sons in drawing and watercolor painting and classroom when the real academy was wide monasteries. As he saw the funerary sculp• lacaues Godbout, a young French Canadian open? tures...

... and art academies were also established, often fashioned on the western art education• al model, in the 1940s or earlier. Beyond this, the most important factor in the rise of African modernism has been the nationalistic cultural resurgence that swept many newly independent African countries where...

... at in the academy beyond the use I will make of it in Nsukka, or see it discussed at Aka shows in Enugu my forthcoming book Hideous Architecture. Never- or Lagos, we encounter a very different work, com- theless, when Igbo Nigerians (speaking in Igbo) dis- pletely inscribed with other meanings and issues...

... of the academy. 56 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 In this article, I examine a number of manifestos and articles written by members of the Art and Liberty group between 1937 and 1939 to reassess the importance of the concept of free art (al-fann al-hur). Then, I turn...

... of new types of knowledge they generate within the a museum and several major biennials and inter- museum and academy. Here I should like to invoke national exhibitions, and as the dean of a college Dipesh Chakrabarty’s idea of provincialization as of art. My presentation...

... and vision, myth and history, make Within Reach one of the most complete artistic projects ever undertaken in the his- tory of the Venice Biennale.1 More recently, artist Isaac Julien curated a section of the 2020 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which paid homage to Okwui, and invited...

... the city in which the portrait of Tamara and Tireka with the pseudo-science ordained by the illogic of was made. Weeks earlier, on August 19, 1839, the white racial supremacy. It is important to point out French Academy of Sciences had revealed the that the nudity of the subjects in these photographs...

... of President Nkrumah and the Ghana Academy of Learning; he renounced his US citizenship and became a Ghanaian citizen some time before his death in August of 1963. White s 1965 charcoal drawing Two Brothers Have I Had on Earth One of Spirit, One of Sod illustrated on the cover of the first English-language...

... of flamenco posture is there, the solem- ney’s trees were displayed at the Royal Academy in nity, but not the lightness: even as a dancer stamps, London.17 Then one could make a fuller assessment she rolls her weight to the ball of the foot; the still- of the visual themes and their variations...

...Kendell Geers © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Adding Poetry to Politics Kendell Geers, Self-Portrait, 1995. Courtesy and © Kendell Geers Kendell Geers Africa95 opened on October 4, 1995, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, seven months and a few days after the First Johannesburg Biennale...

... and judge outdated. But such attitudes correspond, under the mantle of abstraction in your work? modernism, to the very same formalism as the old Academy. Sonja EM: The distinction between what's called figurative and abstract is a Ferlov told me that when...