... as topical visual commentary on race, which consciously crosses between high and popular culture and audiences. Kehinde Wiley contemporary painting African American art Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 Brooklyn Museum of Art. February 20–May 24, 2015...

.... For instance, memory and nostalgia are conjured up by a jerba that is magnificently crowned. The Lion of Judah is painted in the middle of the crown, and the figure is adorned with sparkling gems. Reflective of the complexities of the present, this particular image depicts a contemporary culture...

... 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...

...Mia L. Bagneris Unequivocal in his professed lack of interest in incorporating any sort of African influence into his work, Palmer Hayden once famously quipped: “I never had any desire to paint anything about Africa. I painted what Negroes, colored people, us Americans do … we’re a brand new race...

...Silvi Naçi Rico Gatson is a cultural producer. Long before other artists, his work embodied the pursuit of light and pushed the boundaries of modernity by building new structures for understanding and representing black bodies in contemporary dialogue and the art market. Each piece commands...

... that we encounter in the landscape. The works of seven contemporary South African artists are discussed in this context, including the photography of David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, and Santu Mofokeng, video work and anamorphic drawings by William Kentridge, film by Berni Searle, painting by Vivienne...

..., director of the Department of Painting and Sculpture (1968–88), with regard to their influence on the museum’s mission, exhibitions, and international profile. The author concludes with commentary on contemporary changes in art geography and contemplation on the effect on artists of the emergence...

... previous work that appropriated European sub- Fosso’s photography appears in Wiley’s personal jects, Wiley’s African paintings honor the culture collection, an indication of the admiration Wiley and accomplishments of the continent, suggesting has for his African contemporaries. that precolonial...

... presented by painting and Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 122 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3641766 © 2016 by Nka Publications Barbara Walker, Untitled, 2006. Digital mixed-media print, 81 x 106 cm. Courtesy the artist. © Barbara Walker. Photo: Gary...

... history of artistic convention and transcultural exchange, drawing on references ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting to contemporary art. In Mthethwa’s photographs an intense pictorial visuality serves as a starting point for both documentary portraiture and critical inquiry...

... successive tiers of social abstraction in contemporary culture as they become visible and embodied in art objects. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow II, 2011. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art. Neon, paint, and powder-­coated...

..., and universities." Susan Vogel the found• AFRICA95 events are slated to cover contemporary painting, sculp• ing director of the museum who is now at Yale...

... derogatory terms or references to race, or to identify sitters; hence, La Négresse becomes Portrait of Laure.3 Despite its original title, the exhibition describes this painting s loose brushstrokes, at- tention to the sitter s singular fea- tures, and contemporary clothing as a revisionist approach...

... site of human longing for reconciliation with itself Wide-­Eyed Angels: Contemporary Expressive Culture in Ethio- pia,” African Arts 42 (2009): 6–13. and its objects. After all, “suffering humanely con- 2. Contemporary paintings of Mother Ethiopia...

... festival brought in the usual large crowd that was curious to investigate the contemporary art exhibitions taking place on the same grounds, breaking down barriers between art forms such as music and painting. A well-planned In and some nineteen Off exhibitions and events scattered from one end of the city...

... paintings of African scenes that offers a startling contrast to the exuberant abstractions by contemporary Africa which are on display in the city. 22 Blake argues that Tendances s transatlantic rift unfolding in real time might at an earlier point have been imagined to be bridged by the visual syncretism...

..., the point was Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture there, this timelessness was there, this (Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services person who represented this ancestor.18 International, 1995...

... to identify otherness in American 13 April Kingsley, Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Nineteen Black American cultural politics. More than a discourse for the Artists (New York: P.S. 1...

... to Do You Like Creme in Your Coffee and Choco - profound discomfort, shock , and disbelief. It is def - Search for ideas supporting the Black Man as a work of Modern Art/Contemporary Painting. A death without end...

... the interrelatedness of the arts and of various forms of communication within popular media in 1965, mixing fashion with contemporary painting and sculpture, rock music, poetry...