...Salah M. Hassan The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet...

... Hammons Hauser and Wirth Crenshaw Dairy Mart contemporary global art Eurocentric conception of art ETHNIC ENVY and Other Aggressions in the Contemporary Global Art Complex Amelia Jones C urate, as many curatorial studies scholars have pointed out, is derived from the Latin cura, which means...

...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

... into seven themes designed as points of entrée into the field of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, the sprawling exhibition includes contributions by nearly eighty architects, writers, and artists either born in or working on the continent. With its kaleidoscope of images, Louisiana’s AFRICA provides many...

... to the CONTEMPORARY ART reality and history of brutalization, especially of the AND THE black male, by state security agents and a reawak- ening of mass resistance to systemic oppression...

...Michelle Stephens “Defacing the Gaze and Reimagining the Black Body: Contemporary Caribbean Women Artists” examines works by visual artists Oneila Russell, Holly Bynoe, Patricia Kaersenhout, and Ebony Patterson, exploring how these contemporary artists wrestle with the terms in which we see black...

...Ekaterina Golovko This article explores two contemporary works (Kader Attia’s Open Your Eyes [2010] and Neïl Beloufa’s Kempinski [2011]), alongside Alain Resnais’s and Chris Marker’s 1953 classic short film Les statues meurent aussi ( The Statues Also Die ). The pieces belong to different contexts...

...Sandra Klopper Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL OWNERSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA riting in the early 1990s, Stuart Hall noted that subjects, their curators, have thrown into sharp focus the country's...

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...Akinwumi Adesokan Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 Reading of that exhibit ("both notorious argument dislodges the West or pages of African Arts. Piction the Contemporary...