...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...

...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...

...-generated pathology of the Black bomber, forced to take his place alongside existing pernicious notions of the Black mugger and Black rapist. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 THROUGH THE WIRE Black British People and the Riot...

... and stints of minstrel mimicry are highly THE UNMAPPED BODY: jarring and confrontational. Boyce's fi• 3 BLACK BRITISH...

... no longer be able to hold you Know that nothing is lost nor fully unfurled The mind and its magic live on in the world And as the Visionary hearts of times gone past This Visionary heart is ever to last. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British painter and writer. Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May...

... of form became a dialogue about mutations and migra- this world s past was also all the world s future. tions to evolve with and contain different meanings throughout both time and space how the contex- Sir David Adjaye OBE is a Ghanaian British tual site, for example, could inform the structure...

...; The Short Century: Independence Yinka Shonibare CBE is a British-Nigerian artist and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 1994, based in London. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002; and then, of course, Documenta11, Kassel, Germany, 2002, a project that completely transformed the trajectory of my career...

... of art of graffiti and the ways in which, in cities such as criticism. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved Cairo, the graffiti artist articulates and documents in the visual arts, particularly the practice of Black social upheaval. Her images reveal the extent to British artists. He is also...

... handkerchief, polished brogue shoes, white starched shirt with throat-strangling tie, and a trilby hat cocked at an angle. In Eastern Caribbean vernacular they were saga bwoys , or sweet bwoys , masculine personas who, in my rite of passage from a short-pants “colored” boy to a black British young man, I saw...

..., and British art and is assistant professor of the history of African-­American Art,” in A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African art at Vanderbilt University. Americans, ed. William E. Taylor and Harriet G. Warkel (India...

..., 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...

... connotations. Osei Bonsu is a British Ghanaian writer and curator based in London. He writes on the arts and cultural affairs for the CP: Yes I agree. I am very much interested in these devi- pan-African magazine New African and recently assisted in ant...

.... These heads, Courtney J. Martin is an art historian of twentieth- now mistakenly seen as types, rather than por• century British art. traits, were once specific markers of a nation's wealth (via its ability to obtain slaves) as well as Notes the reality of its post-contact population...

...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...

...Elizabeth Robles This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged...

...Jareh Das The late British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98) developed a unique vocabulary critiquing wider representations of the black male body that extended beyond his status as a person living with sickle cell disease to the lives of others with a shared racial background. Critical yet full...

...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...

...Ian Bourland This article considers recent films by the artist John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Ghana). It argues that Vertigo Sea , The Airport , and Purple exemplify a new phase of black British art production. While building on the methods and themes that characterize his time with the Black Audio Film...

...Yasmine Espert Pressure , the first feature film by a black British director, was the center of praise and critique at the time of its release. Completed in 1974, it narrates a coming-of-age story about a young man who discovers the complexity of Black Power activism in London. This article...