... to Canvas F riday, December 2, 1960, was the fi nal time that Patrice Émery Lumumba, the fi rst dem-ocratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was ever seen on camera. He was assassinated a little over a month later, on January 17, 1961. In one of the images re- cording his last...

... for Canvas maga- lidi ya Homu would be had it been the African artists, it perhaps had less of a zine, the premier magazine for art and sole showcase in the space (as, indeed, visual synergy with them, although the culture in the Middle East. She is also it was at Carroll/Fletcher). The artist sensory...

... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since...

... of a double-headed axe of Shango, the Yoruba god of fire, lightning, and thunder. The axe, wielded by the composition’s central figure, shatters the pictorial plane of the canvas, which Donaldson variously labeled G lass , S heet , and M ade in USA. I argue that, through his appropriation of African art...

... wielding the brush, often in front of a canvas on which the depiction of his or her self-portrait is in process but unfinished. Marshall shows us the act of self...

... - bris color,and tone—the paint canvas. on what...

... to the American continent, my Kalidou Sy, 1995, Goree, Senegal. Photo: Magaye Niang. Journal of Contemporary African Art Man from the South, 2001. Acrylic, clay, and burlap on canvas, 44 x 37 in. Collection of Eileen Julien. Photo by Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague...

..., and African American culture. Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017 16 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3885907 © 2017 by Nka Publications Jack Whitten, Flying High: Betty Carter, 1998. Acrylic on canvas, 106.5 x 84.3 in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York...

... and exciting. This unpredictability creates a vital tension or energy between form and formlessness, balancing them on a knife edge. Penny Siopis , Twins , 2009. Oil, ink, and glue on canvas, 100 x 100 cm...

... on canvas, 100 x 70 cm. 30 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art WRITING OF IMAGES Eriberto Eulisse The Work of Fathi Hassan istonans...

... Elizabeth Colomba, The Ants, 2011. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. Based on a mythological theme of Psyche and Eros. Courtesy the artist. © Elizabeth Colomba Colomba Nka • 197...

.... Spring / Summer 2001 Nka-67 Gani Odutukun, Columns and Partitions, 1994, Oil on canvas, 86 x 100 cm. financed in the West, bringing with them a lot of post-colonial, neo-primitivist...

... of Contemporary African Art 2011 Faith Ringgold, US America Black, 1969. Oil on stretched canvas, 60 × 84 in. © Faith Ringgold America Black Faith Ringgold’s Black Light Series Journal of Contemporary African Art • 29 • Fall 2011 50 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163...

... UK Diaspora series, 2007. Mixed media on canvas, 54 x 45 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK. © Kimathi Donkor Bernier Nka...

... Kerry James Marshall, Great America, 1994. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 261.62 × 289.56 cm of the language and imagery of na- (103 × 114 in). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee; tional unity — keep this issue in the courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman...

...- ogy of masculinity and humanity. Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 62 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-009  © 2010 by Nka Publications Cullen Washington, Hulk Don’t Smash (detail), 2008. Charcoal, acrylic, paper, and found object on canvas, 71 x 54...

... decades earlier in cartoonish, satiri- of “Williams,” as the subject is identi- cal paintings like George Washington ed on the canvas above the names of Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page those rulers preceding Napoleon...

... at Ecstasy of Medusa, oil on canvas, 152 x 122 cm, 1999 sympathizers who fed him from the breasts of milking mothers. pin otherwise pastoral and verdant images of an ordered, ration• Phokela exposes the figures' bodies and, as his St Peter makes to alized Western world, evident...

... zed , Apartheid to the public eye. T he girl in Give the People What _ Journal of Contempora ry African Art Het Kwaad is Banaal (Evil is Bana~, 1984. Oil on canvas, 125 x 105 cm. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Courtesy Goodman Gallery Cape. Spring...

... warming. PENNY SIOPIS STUDIO CALL Okeke-Agulu Nka 115 Penny Siopis, I Shall but Love Thee Better after Death, 2011. Glue and ink on canvas, 183 x 152.5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. © the artist Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 2020116 Nka I first met...