...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...

...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...

...Peter Erickson This essay explores Kerry James Marshall’s paintings of black artists in studio settings who are often positioned at the easel with an unfinished self-portrait. The series begins with a portrait within a portrait of a historical figure— Scipio Moorehead, Portrait of Himself, 1776...

...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...

...Kay Brown Although the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s signaled one of the most significant developments in recent American art history, black women artists, for the most part, were underrepresented in major gallery and museum exhibitions at the movement’s inception. “Where We At” Black...

... the poral artists, integral to a movement of Sankofa, Black Audio Film Collective) in• tory not as a grand narrative of progress, artist calls "hair-things." It engages...

...Michelle Stephens “Defacing the Gaze and Reimagining the Black Body: Contemporary Caribbean Women Artists” examines works by visual artists Oneila Russell, Holly Bynoe, Patricia Kaersenhout, and Ebony Patterson, exploring how these contemporary artists wrestle with the terms in which we see black...

...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...

... States and Africa by Everything Is Separated by Water offers a perfect means of a double take.14 The objects often allude metaphor for the beauty and anguish of the Black to an African aesthetic tradition, yet their hybrid Atlantic. As a Cuban artist of Nigerian ancestry...

.... [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 carnivalesque Ayrson Heráclito Alex da Silva Kiluanji Kia Henda Filipe Branquinho lusophone Black world Dialogues with the Carnivalesque Decolonial Artistic Practices in the Lusophone Black World Ana Nolasco T he term Carnivalesque refers...

... members as well as for present artists, and they will probably inspire future generations of artists as well. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Wadsworth Jarrell, Black Prince (Malcolm), 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 44 × 64 in. Courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Munson Steed...

... the making of the art pieces they discuss. By failing to challenge societal and institutional labeling of black artists...

... sense of self as a black British person of Afri- at London’s October Gallery. The exhibition brought can and Caribbean heritage. together several artists based in Jamaica and pre- She gained a theology, history, and sociology BA sented their work alongside a number of Jamaican...

...Julia Elizabeth Neal Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power is a meticulous case study into an embattled New York art establishment, which black artists critiqued as perpetuating racist, exclusionist collecting and exhibition practices during the 1960s...

...Nana Adusei-Poku The article “Post-Post-Black?” unfolds two aspects with which contemporary black artists and academics are confronted: the prevailing racism and stereotypes about the work by black artists and scholars, and the advanced scholarship and artistic practices that try to dispose...

... closet, a trumpet, and even a Miles’s cool, composed concentration. In the early gun — toy, or not. The custom- made black trumpet shots, Barboza found the erotic pride of muscula- is not, in these images, of a wholly di erent order ture; in the later, the skeletal emergence that means from...

.... Courtesy the artist. © Berni Searle McGee Nka • 49 considered to be “a persistent part of black political of the Iklwa—a short stabbing spear—to the armed c u ltu re .” 4...

..., Disparities and Deformations, 16. and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora, 21. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., Monster Theory: Reading Culture examining African American, Caribbean, and black (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 4. British artists in modern and contemporary...

... of Black riots in Brixton and Tottenham, respectively, were British artists. He is also an associate professor in certainly sparked by widespread accounts of these the art history department of the University of Texas two acts or consequences of great violence, meted at Austin.  out to matriarchal...

... of Black social upheaval. Her images reveal the extent to British artists. He is also an associate professor in the which both aspirations and experiences tend to find art history department of the University of Texas at particularly direct, poignant, and powerful expres- Austin.  sion through...