...Anjalie Dalal-Clayton The British artist Sonia Boyce was a central figure in the British Black Arts Movement and has in recent years achieved widespread critical acclaim within the field of British art. Although she is now known for her performative and collaborative approach to art making, she...

...Alice Correia This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the dominant framings of black men...

...Romi Crawford From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. This article attends to the various loci that promote black...

... Wilson. Copeland cleverly mines the conceptual, generational, and contextual ties among these high-profile practitioners to assert that by evoking but refusing to visually portray enslaved black bodies in their installations, the artists redirected attention toward how this antebellum structure continues...

...Leigh Raiford Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Lynching, Visuality, and the Un/Making of Blackness Leigh Raiford hen Ida B. Wells and the NAACP tion, and memorialization of the black body from W embarked...

...Margo Natalie Crawford This essay considers the very use of the word “black” in diasporic freedom struggles as a type of strategic abstraction. Crawford’s focus on blackness as a strategic abstraction deepens our understanding of the practice of diaspora as the practice of black abstraction...

...Coco Fusco Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 THE THAT WERE NOTOURS BLACK PERFORMERS, BLACK PE RFORMANGE...

..., 2008, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of the artist. Journal of Contemporary African Art BLACK IS, BLACK...

...Amy Ongiri In Death 24x a Second Laura Mulvey argues that cinematic images belie the deathlike qualities of still photography because of their ability to invoke the appearance of life through motion. This essay examines film and video projects that use found footage and still images from the Black...

...Eddie Chambers This article discusses the changing nature of art history when it comes to black British artists and suggests that such history has perhaps moved away from existing to instead correcting or addressing the systemic absences of such artists from British art. This is typified by Rasheed...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019150 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917204 © 2019 by Nka Publications SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER BROOKLYN MUSEUM SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 FEBRUARY 3, 2019 In recent decades, exhibition program...

...Kristen Windmuller-Luna RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019154 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917216 © 2019 by Nka Publications POSING MODERNITY: THE BLACK MODEL FROM MANET AND MATISSE TO TODAY WALLACH ART GALLERY NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 24, 2018 FEBRUARY 10, 2019...

... vociferously against nationalism in politics and art, both locally and regionally. In doing so, they shifted the audience of modern Egyptian art and created a new, transnational public. For these reasons, the author calls this movement the “Beautiful Black Cloud” of modern Egyptian Art. It was violent, stormy...

...Lindsay J. Twa lindsay.twa@augie.edu 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...

... of these developments and reckon with the implications and meanings of these changes in conditions for those suffering their consequences. Often central to and reflected in the artist’s work is a critique of narratives of progress. This article examines the ways The Notion of Family series bears witness to Black life...

... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...

...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho Cindy@nae.org.uk © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

.... Murillo’s response sheds new light on the rich yet little explored local black Brazilian art production. Oscar Murillo black Brazilian art performance art Black performance Brazil Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 ...

...Richard Hylton In Britain, black artists are arguably receiving the most sustained level of attention in a generation, from several historical exhibitions and international conferences to academic-based research initiatives and acquisitions by prestigious national museums. While offering artists...

...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...