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...Anna Arabindan-Kesson This article reviews a selection of works by Black diaspora artists who were included in the 2024 Venice Biennale. The article focuses on artists included in the pavilions of Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Benin, along with artists included in the Arsenale...

...- ists to look to African sculptural and decorative arts AMERICAN ART, AFRICA, for inspiration, as did their European modernist AND THE DIASPORA counterparts, was an important moment in dia- sporic symbolic...

....” This article comes to grips with Donkor as a politically radical and aesthetically experimental painter and mixed-media assemblage artist by tracing the ways in which his hard-hitting subject matter comes to life across his UK Diaspora (2007) series. Donkor is all too aware of the ways in which a history...

...Laurie Ann Farrell Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 LOOKING IX 9BOTH WAYS Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora If travel is searching...

... as their new homes, and in the process, contributed to expanding the narrative to modern art history. Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art...

... of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He currently serves as director of the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Notes 1 After Cairo, the exhibition traveled to the National...

... think that the key for us in authenticating Blackness is to deny that we are fundamentally western and that we are influenced by Europe, but we are also influenced by the African diaspora, and the point is that we can lay claim to all of those multidimensional parts of ourselves and not that we have...

... aspects of the editorial and production process. Eddie Chambers is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches African Diaspora art history. Notes 1 Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power took place at Tate Modern, July 12 October 22...

... dialogue, leaving us to consider: What happens now? Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an associate professor of Black Diaspora art at Princeton University. Lubaina Himid, Man in a Shirt Drawer, 2017 18. Courtesy Tate. © Lubaina Himid connection? What kinds of spaces might we build, work toward, and imagine?4 As we...

... reference to machetes as code for Black criminality). Other associations, ones that Sinclair is keen to advance in his work, relate to the African diaspora, Caribbean history (particularly that of Haiti), and the machete as a symbol of enslavement and a tool in insurrections against slavery. The article...

... described as Africa interest within the African American world, found in the religious arts of the continent and its diaspora a rich and generative source for sculptural assemblages and ritualized performance. On the continent, similarly, Abdoulaye Konate, Moustapha Dimé, Tapfuma Gutsa and others, created...

... professor of Black and Latinx diasporas in the Department of Art History, University of Toronto. Notes 1 Renée van der Avoird, Agitated Surfaces: The Formatives Works of Denyse Thomasos, in Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, ed. Renée van der Avoird, Sally Frater, and Michelle Jacques (New York: DelMonico...

.... She specializes in colorful towers of bowls and buckets or exporters, or all of the above, con- twentieth-century African art, arts of displayed in oscillating patterns to sciously repurpose objects according the African diaspora, Islamic arts in attract buyers, inspired him to create to market...

... that could is to expand the definition of land- tor and independent producer special- reach the limits of the fantastic but scape beyond geographic or physical izing in the arts and cultures of Africa that also, sadly, holds a cruel and bru- space by looking at it as a mental and and its diaspora. She...

... Brigade, pp. 16-17. University, and a noted scholar of race, gender, cultur• 7 Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Torture of Others," New York al history and the African diaspora. Times Magazine, May 23 2004: 24-29...

...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...

.... He was either returning from a secret foray or a pub frequented by his comrades, who are still hidden under a tent inhabited by history. He paces in silence, whether alone or with a friend who spent his life in the diaspora a thousand years ago. III He couldn t bear to pick up a star that fell...

... and African Diaspora art at Princeton University. The Deep, 2017. Glue and ink on canvas, 40 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town. © the artist ...

...- to Documenta11 provided a model for the study ture scholars, curators, and artists, while the Clark of the politics of borders ascribed to Chinese con- conference eschewed discussions of creolization, temporary art and the identification of Chinese art- diaspora, or migration, with the exception of a brief ists...

... es, m ost ums and a university fine arts museum- gives dis• of them fro m West Africa, and the works of fiftee n simi lar contexts to the exhibitio ns and th e d is• co ntemporary lead in g artists-from Africa and its plays. Alysa LaGarnrna- stressed the fact that tex • diaspora who use textiles...