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Curating at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 142–145.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Isaac Julien © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 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...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 8–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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The Weusi Artists
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 60–67.
Published: 01 May 2012
...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...
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Abdelkader Lagtaâ and His Conceptual Exercises in Poland, 1972–74
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 40–52.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-performance was the first sign of of the most important Polish centers for experi- Lagtaâ s entry into conceptual strategies. mental art. Two years later, in 1972, Ewa Partum, a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Lagtaâ also worked at the Poetry Office, founded founded Galeria Adres in ód...
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SELF-PORTRAIT/SELF-VISION: THE WORK OF SAMUEL FOSSO
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2009
...: 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...
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BRULY BOUABRE'S ALPHABET
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 202–203.
Published: 01 May 2008
...•
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...
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Select Highlights of Weusi History
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 68–75.
Published: 01 May 2012
...
Select Highlights
Compiled by
Ademola Olugebefola
with Weusi Academy Members
Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring...
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Bust Brawl: The Battle over a Black Bronze Prince
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 174–180.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 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...
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Dakar’s Salon Confrontation of 1966
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 80–101.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Horn Nka 81 Photograph of visitors outside the exhibition Tendances et Confrontations, Palais de Justice, Dakar, 1966. © Académie des sciences d outre-mer, Bibliothèque Félix Houphouêt-Boigny, Fonds Mazel Aimé Césaire was reported to have stated on location in Dakar that notwithstanding a late...
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Frank Bowling’s White Paintings
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 34–47.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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SKUNDER IN CONTEXT
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2000
... 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...
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FROM THE EDITOR
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 13.
Published: 01 November 2001
... 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...
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Yaw Owusu: In the Cool of Day
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 152–157.
Published: 01 November 2023
... institution, which counts internationally acclaimed artists El Anatsui and Ibrahim Mahama among its alumni. Owusu s artistic sensitivities and interrogations are profoundly informed by KNUST s legacy. The Academy, previously under Scottish leadership and affiliated with the University of London, was fashioned...
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Roundtable II: Contemporary African Art History and the Scholarship
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 80–151.
Published: 01 May 2010
... 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...
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“Free Art” and Surrealist Aesthetics: Resituating the Art and Liberty Group in Egyptian Art History
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 54–62.
Published: 01 November 2021
... 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...
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From the Editor
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 4–7.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 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...
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Chris Ofili
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 141.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and form, the secular and sacred, image 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...
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Facing Tamara & Tireka
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 38–43.
Published: 01 November 2015
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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...
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Charles White’s Global Perspective
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 36–47.
Published: 01 May 2022
... 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...
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"Being in Now": Ibrahim El-Salahi at the Tate Modern
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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 98–108.
Published: 01 May 2014
... 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...
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