...Lauren Kroiz In 1971, Harold Cousins published an essay explaining the sculptures that he had begun creating in the mid-1950s, following his relocation in October 1949 from New York to Paris. Cousins described his series named Plaiton , his own neologism combining the English word plate...

...Hélène Tissières In 2019, the second edition of Segou’Art, a contemporary art event taking place in Mali, was combined with the country’s popular Festival on the Niger, launched in 2005 by cultural entrepreneur Mamou Daffé. The combined festival, held February 1–9, included concerts, workshops...

.... The reigniting of his career via the group exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 has provided an opportunity to begin the writing of American art history through an inclusive lens. John Outterbridge assemblage sculpture combines vernacular North Carolina African American art...

..., overlapped, and intertwined. The result is a complex structure of stories that exists between past and present, combines shared histories with personal stories, and ranges from the highly visual to the completely invisible. Throughout the exhibition past and present are in constant ebb and flow...

... of sculpture that speaks of a cosmopolitan vision in which several traditions collide to create a new visual language combining African-derived forms with a minimalist aesthetic. The new works and the archival material included in the retrospective exhibition Amir Nour: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit , organized...

..., the Americans triumph in large part is because of the black models that sashayed the runway, moving like dancers with the instincts of soldiers. That combination mesmerized and blew away the French. Those models included Pat Cleveland, Bethann Hardisan, Billie Blair, Alva Chin, Charlene Dash, Norman Jean Darden...

... installations and tableaux, combinations of superb charcoal and Conté crayon drawings, on weathered wooden planks or cream paper, and found objects. As an artist who draws inspiration from history and the material culture of a bygone era, Lovell doesn’t set out to teach us history, but the subjects and objects...

... custom, and the aftermath of human migration combine across the arc of his production to present a dystopic picture of globalization that critiques both postcolonial theories of hybridity and the cultural and architectural homogenization against which they were originally formulated. Crucially...

... in Los Angeles pushed the parameters of consciously black art by offering a fundamental reevaluation of the meaning art could have in black lives. Much like avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists developed a unique mixed-media language that combined themes of political insurgency, communitarian...

... in a way that forecloses singular, fixed interpretations; and depicts two young women who illustrate the potential for body and machine to merge in opposition to masculinist state power. Bekolo combines the oppositional postmodern thought of the cyborg with critical issues of gender, corruption...

...Kobena Mercer The hybrid combination of human and animal lies at the heart of the figurative vocabulary through which Jane Alexander’s sculptural tableaux summon us into the imaginative domain of the “humanimal”—a domain where the boundaries by which religion, philosophy and science have separated...

...Pep Subirós The exhibition Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) was presented by the Museum for African Art in collaboration with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City from April to July 2013. Through combinations of sculpted figures, tableaux, installations...

... associations. Excess ultimately arises from complexity, as hybrid art forms are created from the combination of media and content found within the art work. abject Baroque body politics Cohen Steven contemporary South African art cultural resistance excess hybrid Mntambo Nandipha new media Neo...

..., history, and personal experience, seamlessly brought together in multimedia works that reveal how electronic media shapes identity and perception. Eshetu’s work stems from the combined sensibilities of filmmaker, photographer, documentarian, and sound artist. His thoughts and reflections about art...

...Cauleen Smith 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 combines remarks and images offered at the conference...

... a combination of cynicism, nostalgia, even sadness. The politics and the politically oriented art of the twentieth century recall utopian hopes that ended in dashed expectations. Yet art that speaks the language of the twentieth-century insurgent Left also recalls the brutality attributed to those struggles...

... 1979 and 1980, where she was introduced to the work of feminist artists Margaret Harrison, Kate Walker, and Monica Ross.7 Collectively known as Fenix, the three artists used gallery spaces as studios and combined drawing, photography, text, magazine clippings, and images of everyday objects in collage...

..., often second albums as a combination of three suites worn when stepping out, and recognized globally inspired by Fritz Lang’s iconic film Metropolis (1927); as “elegant,” the tuxedo conveys cosmopolitan- in addition, Monáe’s second album, The ArchAndroid ism.8 According to legend, it originated...

... unrelated pieces and installations, refusing both yet operating between them through temporary and meaningful collusions. While they function as discrete proposals, combined, the works open up a performative space of inquiry into the mythic constructs of modernist painting and the black body. Most...

... recognize in public, should it be compro- were keen on combining ideas of classical elegance mising to one’s companions.”14 In the first chapter with primitivist playfulness and (homo)erotic fan- Gorer acknowledges Benga’s standing, noting that tasy. Unlike Baker, Benga was, due to his “authentic...