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...Lindsay J. Twa [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 The Great Congress of the Black Spirit Artist Reflections on FESTAC 77 Lindsay J. Twa I n a 2017 interview, artist Gerald Williams reflected, Nobody knows today, but FESTAC . . . it had something to do...

... history is one of the main topics in António Ole’s artwork. The artist was born into a mixed Angolan and Portuguese family in 1951. His first exhibitions in Luanda took place at the end of the 1960s, before independence. After finishing his film studies in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Ole returned...

... is important for painting today, science fiction and outer space as a frontier for blackness, Ralph Ellison’s influence on him, and Washington’s artistic and cultural inspirations, as well as his experiences as a graduate student. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010...

...Lisa Binder Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 MALICK SIDIBE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PORTRAITIST A film by Susan Vogel National Museum of Mali First Run / Icarus Films, 2006 Portrait of the Artist...

...Angela Read Lloyd Moses Tladi was a realist painter at a time when realism was internationally accepted and admired. This article outlines his life and offers an assessment of his deserved place in Africa’s art history. Tladi first exhibited in 1929 and in 1931 was the first black artist to exhibit...

... the collective in relationship to collections. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34 • Spring 2014 74 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2415222  © 2014 by Nka Publications The ARTIST CORPORATION...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen Over a decade ago, the contemporary artist Mwangi Hutter, comprising Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter, merged names and biographies to become one artist, despite differences of gender, race, age, and cultural backgrounds. Based in Berlin and Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Nairobi...

...Dina A. Ramadan Thirty-two-year-old multimedia artist Ahmed Basiony was one of the earliest martyrs of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Shortly after his death his work was selected for the Egyptian pavilion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale. This article questions the choice of Basiony...

...Mark Bessire Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 Pope.1 The Friendliest Black Artist in America MARK BESSIRE Black Domestic, 1995-1995 Pope.L's...

..., this article highlights the artistic contributions of figures such as Ayrson Heráclito, Alex da Silva, Kiluanji Kia Henda, and Filipe Branquinho. The works of these artists are analyzed as reflections of decolonial practices, intertwined with discourses of resistance against the exploitation of natural...

...Faridah Folawiyo [email protected] The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure . National Portrait Gallery , London February 22 — May 19 , 2024 Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 portraiture black figure London exhibitions REVIEW...

... Passage, the triangular routes of the slave trade. As the point of origin of Julien's parents. The extra• a cultural arena, it represents the imaginative ordinary meeting between Walcott and Julien is space over which artistic passages and exchanges recorded in Creolite and Creolization...

...Ruth Kerkham Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 artist was granted the freedom to select were bombed by employing pixilation, FRESH the author of her...

...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 THREE ARTISTS THREE PROJECTS Salah M. Hassan [Print is a theoretical language of evolving ideas. Hugh...

... artists, Through Sirry’s work it is possible to read, for Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer, who belong the most part indirectly, the post-Nasserite political...

...CLAIRE TANCONS Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 6_tancons:nka_book_size 2/28/10 6:26 PM Page 106 CARNIVAL and THE ARTISTIC CONTRACT...

..., I thought it was far of Ethiopian Artists enough away for detachment and close enough for clarity. I could...

...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...