...N. J. Hynes The British painter Chris Ofili’s retrospective at the Tate Britain in London shows a painter reinventing his approach to paint in the middle of a successful career. His previous work used multiple layers of cutouts, paint, glitter, resin, and dung, creating a lush Afro-rococo style...

... involving collage and elephant dung. However, Ofili’s work from the past decade illustrates some surprising new directions, particularly the work from 2005 on, after the artist had moved to Trinidad. In particular, Ofili is now invested in investigating very different, if not classically art-historical...

... reminds us of the different trends that put the "small, rich sugar islands of the Ofili's sun, bearing at its center the once-scandalous ele• Caribbean" on the world tourist map: phant-dung ball, radiates over an exclusively red-black...

... unlike Ofili, Walker has maintained a demure public silence regard• the elephant dung, the fact that Ofili is Black and that he had won ing her critics. 20,000 Quid. Given all the ruckus, I could certainly understand why Having listened to all...

... the pachydermatous rather than the avian, and he adorned his canvases with dung, resin, map pins, and glitter, drawing these same sorts of provocative connections be- tween the bestial and the sacral, the primitive and the transcendentally pure. Ofili’s Holy Virgin Mary (1996), resting...

...; the large painting or monumental sculpture. artist is not readyyet to show his drawings. Chris Ofili is working in watercolors as well as his large, dung Ward sits back at his small, equally uncluttered desk against and acrylic paintings. Kcho no longer simply makes his...

... enabled him to trav- elto Zimbabwe. It was during the trip that he began to develop his new style which draws from numerous sources including David Hammons's installations with elephant dung, nineteen-seventies black popular culture, as well as south Pacific painting tradi• tions. Ofili's award places...

... around me" mentality. Chris Of ili, Afrodizzia, acrylic, oil, resin, paper collage, glitter and elephant dung on canvas, 1996 Regardless of these musings, the real questions reside in the What the music has become, no one could have anticipated...

... with vegetation, bones, sea- Basel Abbas’s and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s The shells, rocks, and detritus, and cement troughs on Incidental Insurgents (Parts 1–3) (2012–15) was the floor. Heaps of soil mixed with dung, symmetri- another compelling work, comprising objects and cally arranged as cultivation ridges...