..., ASIAN, & Museum. This made it tough to tell CARIBBEAN ARTISTS IN where one section ended and the next BRITAIN.1966...

...N. J. Hynes The British painter Chris Ofili’s retrospective at the Tate Britain in London shows a painter reinventing his approach to paint in the middle of a successful career. His previous work used multiple layers of cutouts, paint, glitter, resin, and dung, creating a lush Afro-rococo style...

...Kris Juncker Inadvertently, Tate Britain may be forecasting the fate of hip-hop and its artistic expression through a midcareer retrospective of Chris Ofili’s work. The exhibition presents a number of stages of his development, with an emphasis on the breakout, commercially successful work...

..., of the artists it represents. In 1994 she curated (and Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent provided the catalogue entries for) Home and Away: Black Artists in Britain, appeared in 2012. Chambers Nka • 7 ...

... offering Recent Black Artists in Britain Artists Black Recent of Politics Cultural The Change: Done Things His book, of Austin. Texasat University the at history art and of art Chambers Eddie...

... of wit, Rodney was, until his death in 1998 from complications related to sickle cell disease, one of the most compelling artists to come out of the Black Arts Movement of 1980s Britain. From X-rays of his cells to tiny sculptures made from his own skin, Rodney created conceptual self-portraits of his...

... black community. His deliberate choice to steer from an “uplift” aesthetic ignited a debate that continues to the present day. I argue that Ové’s observational style in the film attempts to picture the public and the inner lives of black Britain. Ultimately, it shows that the call for equity...

... and their annual Igue rite to the Head; Victorian Britain’s history of invention, exploration and conquest in which the sacking and looting of the former kingdom of Benin is of particular interest; and the essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ by the German cultural theorist Walter Benjamin...

...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...

...Hisham Aidi Hisham Aidi traces how Malcolm X—and the black freedom movement, more broadly— have become central to Muslim youth consciousness today. He traces how today, as during the early 1960s, various governments—the United States, Britain, Iran, and Saudia Arabia—have been trying...

... challenges endured by generations of Black people in Britain, even as they have endured pronounced episodes of violence, at the hands of individuals as well as the state. Considering the image of the lone petrol bomber participating in the Lozells, Birmingham, riots of 1985, I further examine the media...

... begins to explore the ontology and materiality of a process that saw the aesthetic embodiment and reconstruction of diasporic Caribbeanness in a British context of the dressed black male body—a body that would come to reconfigure the streets of urban Britain with fresh, dynamic masculinities in motion...

... of cosmopolitan societies and selves; and the changing representation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a rare document of the black experience in postwar Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also provides an important frame of reference, overlapping...

...Faridah Folawiyo folawiyofaridah@gmail.com © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS LIFE BETWEEN ISLANDS: CARIBBEAN-BRITISH ART 1950s NOW TATE BRITAIN DECEMBER 1, 2021 APRIL 3, 2022 The exhibition s title suggests that it will focus on the Atlantic, the body of water that separates...

... of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, art historian Kobena Mercer puts forward a challenge.1 He calls for art- ists, curators, and critics to begin the long, overdue process of constructing an art history that maps the dialogues and developments of black British art onto broader stories...

... Daily Mail4 recent but nonetheless mythical notion that in the Lawrence case confirms that the Tories Britain has sorted out the discrete issues of know something about the political...

... at chronicling a black British history: the 1989 90 exhibition The Other Story: Asian, African, and Caribbean Artists in Post-War Britain.1 Given the historical tenuousness of black artists in British art history, this endeavor was a landmark exhibi- tion, conceived and curated by Rasheed Araeen and organized...

...Helen Jennings Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 REVIEWS LYNETTE YIADOMBOAKYE FLY IN LEAGUE WITH THE NIGHT TATE BRITAIN, LONDON, DECEMBER 2, 2020 MAY 31, 2021 As you enter the first room of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye s exhibition at London s Tate Britain, Fly in League with the Night, you...

... of modern art in Britain. They were members of the Empire Windrush generation, named after the ship carrying four hundred ninety-two Caribbean mi- grants, arriving at Tilbury Docks, Essex, in 1948. They ushered in the first modern wave of immi- gration from the colonies and Commonwealth to Britain s shores...

... Britain, the 1980s were lived as a relent- less vertigo of displacement. 3 Donald Rodney (1961 98) forged his artistic ca- reer within this milieu of state-sanctioned epistemic violence and its counter force of radical black, anti- racist politics. A leading figure in the BLK Art Group of the early 1980s...