... with the chairman of one are not the romantic, innocuous im• impetus for South Africa's most sig• division. His floor remained devoid of ages they were seen to be. nificant collection...

...Lauri Firstenberg Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 SIEMON ALLEN'S STAiflP fiOHECTION LAURI FIRSTENBERG Artists Space, Concepts and Conceptualism. January 12 - March 2,2002. Siemon Allen, Stamp Collection, dimensions variable, 2002 courtesy...

... a Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson, and new audience and a new generation to the work of the Trevor Mathison remains terra infirma. There are good reasons Black Audio Film Collective. An artworld audience internal and external...

...Huey Copeland; Naomi Beckwith “Black Collectivities” selectively reproduces and expands on the proceedings of a conference held in Chicago in May 2013 that brought together an international roster of artists, art historians, cultural critics, and curators invested in the histories and futures...

...Elvira Dyangani Ose 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 begins with part of Elvira Dyangani Ose’s ongoing...

...John Corbett 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 consists of a meditation on modes of self-organization...

...Theaster Gates 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. After examining the vast structural responses to the need...

.../10757163-9435765 © 2021 by Nka Publications Van-Leo, self-portrait with his camera, 1941. Van Leo and Angelo Boyadjian Photograph Collection, series 2, box 1, Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL), the American University in Cairo (AUC) Seif Nka 165 Do You Know Any of Those, spread in Al...

... colors, secular catalogs. and religious life in the civilizations of Curator of collections in twentieth- and the Maghreb blossoms forth from with• twenty-first<entury art in the Musee de in buildings onto bright...

...NJ Hynes Bust of a Moor , by John Van Nost, is one of the oldest works to be continuously held by the Royal Collection at Kensington Palace in London. Commissioned around 1689, its gleaming layers of colored marble surprise and delight with their careful detail and blatant bling. But the Moor’s...

... for a predominantly white nightlife. This staging blocks his ability to be in the company of a black activist community. Framed as a series of missed opportunities, this melodrama inculcates a discrepancy between self-indulgence (Tony s preference for escapism while being unemployed) and collective progress (Tony s...

... African Art 52 May 2023 Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022. Room 4 featuring the Devotional Collection, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Cristiano Corte resistance, and freedom. The artist s longtime interest in wallpaper as a material, and more specifically, its potential in relation to collage...

..., metal, mixed media, 332 x 100 cm. Installation view, AFRICA, 2015. Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Ulrik Jantzen 96 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017 In his catalogue essay on the origins...

... was overly magnified. And Events of the Self 15 at the So AQFM is trying to forge, let’s say, a dialogue about the fact Walther Collection, which included your videos — that in contemporary African art we haven’t seen enough of the abstract experience...

... of the early Cold War. This consensus Charles White, Love Letter #1, 1971. Lithograph with documents. 22 3/16 × 30 in. proposed a kind of utopia of racial in- (56.4 × 76.2 cm). Private collection tegration in which the social conflicts opened up by the emerging move- Jones navigates the contending...

... ment comprising those like Romare Bearden, Fel- as Chicago’s Wall of Respect, executed, like Die, in rath Hines, and Hale Woodruff, who had founded the summer of 1967, the Collage of Indignation was the collective Spiral a few years earlier. In part, her better known...

...Berni Searle The author/artist provides twenty images from three of her performance and video series: Home and Away (2003), Seeking Refuge (2008), and Mute (2008), complementing them with descriptions of the creative process and the collective experiences the images depict. Themes of identity...