... , Travelling Light , Body and Soul , Brave New World, Africanized , Trip to Mount Zuqualla , Roma , and The Return of the Axum Obelisque . Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Theo Eshetu Selene Wendt interview multimedia video Blood is Not Fresh Water Ethiopia THEO...

...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 1994 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1994 ...

... Art • 28 • Spring 2011 Overview of the first section of the exhibition, titled “Sculpting Memories,” for early wood sculptures and reliefs. Photo: Hitoshi Tagami larly art museums or art galleries in Europe, the I too am concerned that contemporary African United States, and Japan...

... discourses, Fred Holland’s sculptures are reflections on life’s impermanence, on human frailty, and on the struggle for survival. He walks the line between the categories that have defined black art in a constant search for reinvention and renewal. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

...Monique Kerman When Okwui Enwezor gained world renown as artistic director of Documenta11 in 2002, his accomplishments as curator of contemporary African art were already well established. His In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940–Present , exhibition (1996) had the temerity to describe...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This panel, convened from September 4 to October 10, 2009, is the second of a three-part series on issues in contemporary African art. The first panel, which appeared in issue 22/23 of Nka, focused on large-scale exhibitions, which have been instrumental in bringing the work...

...Selene Wendt This article provides a brief overview of a few thematic exhibitions that the author has curated, highlighting the importance of contemporary African art within a wider international context. The author highlights African and African diaspora artists whose careers continue to thrive...

..., this energy and visibility has not been matched by a parallel regime of art criticism that lives up to the levels of their work. Second, we find a rising interest in exhibiting and collecting works by contemporary African and diaspora artists among Western museums as well as private and public collections...

... white authority and black agency, as black artists demanded that staff consult an expert in African American art for the 1971 “black art” show, Contemporary Black Artists in America , at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Chapter 4 covers the Museum of Modern Art’s pace at better representing work...

...), a Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017 90 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3886068 © 2017 by Nka Publications Andre Christensen and Mieke Droomer, Louisiana Spine, 2015. Installation view of AFRICA: Architecture, Culture, and Identity exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art...

...Barbara Murray In 1962, African and international delegates met in Africa for the First International Congress of African Culture. This little-known event showcased the superb aesthetics and power of both classic and contemporary African arts, refuted bias and misrepresentations, and demonstrated...

... with the highly formalist and its history.10 Hassan Nka • 91 92 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 Installation view of Amir Nour: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit exhibition, Sharjah Art Foundation. Front...

... with negative emotions: sorrow, pain, and humiliation. Illustrative of the turn is the 2009 exhibition Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art , which considered pain and suffering as overrated and sought to provide a more accurate picture of life on the continent as a mix of pleasure and pain...

...Helen Jennings From March 30 to June 9, 2014, in the coastal town of Knokke-Heist, Belgium’s international photography festival hosted an outdoor exhibition that brought together world-renowned artists whose works examine contemporary African dress practices. The continent’s burgeoning fashion...

... in 2004 as part of the exhibition Per- sonal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art.2 One might question the possible contradictions between the set of beliefs prevalent in a religious temple such as St. John the Divine, and a body of work in which all religious faith...

... painting. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 Jack Whitten (1939-) abstract painting Black Arts African American artists memorials ARS AND TECHNE JACK WHITTEN Retrospective Chanda Laine Carey ack Whitten: Five Decades...

... As 2 – Today (June Africa West from Art ward: WeFor Face art. contemporary African West of exhibition amajor hosted ter...

..., highlighting both the artist’s stunning images and photography’s capacity to convey both personal expression and the stark facts of social crisis. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011...

...- Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art "blockbuster") thematic or survey exhibitions, vive on the goodwill of a director of one edition of which despite their usual controversial aspects, play the Biennale; rather it must be backed and sustained important roles in asserting...

...Ruth Kerkham Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 COEXISTENCE: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, January 22 - June 29,2003 (The exhibition will also be at the South...