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... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

.../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...

..., 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...

... of utilities and the scant sun• in garden rows on a bookcase in the window of the light rationed through the windowpanes on the room to the right of the dogtrot. Collectible kerosene road-side walls. lamps, some with chimneys and some without, were...

...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...

... 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 gradual acceptance of Black Power activism). Long takes and close-ups in Pressure signal the presence of Tony s interior...

..., solidarity, 122 Nka Journal of Contemporary 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...

...Selene Wendt Selene Wendt’s review “Creating Space for Enwezor’s Curatorial Vision” addresses a small selection of the many works featured in Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15). Conceived by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, SB15 included more than one hundred and fifty artists and collectives...

... Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2015. © Lubaina Himid. Image courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate each of these attempting to stand in for something lifelike. They also evoke the contemporary concept of the avatar the appropriation of a historic figure, refashioned...