...Karen E. Milbourne The exhibition Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa opened at the National Museum of African Art and Enid A. Haupt Garden, Smithsonian Institution, on Earth Day (April 22) 2013 and has been extended through February 23, 2014. Curator Karen E...

...Peter Erickson This article on Nick Cave’s exhibition Meet Me at the Center of the Earth locates the center in Cave’s first soundsuits, made in response to the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991. Cave makes a connection between King’s flattened body on the ground and twigs...

... by the beast with a beautiful Black woman’s face. This article argues, instead, that the woman represents violated and polluted Earth, a victim of carnivorous birds, who, in turn, represent the devastating agents of industrial pollution and rampant consumption. This work testifies to the artist’s interest...

... joined many other voices at the time in advocating for African unity, but he did so with a global perspective. He argued that Africans must join together to save not only Africa, but the rest of the Earth as well. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 Boubou Hama Niger...

... diplomacy, a central policy thrust of Senegalese government since independence. Coincidentally, the mainstream art world had begun to reexamine the meaning of internationalism in the wake of neoliberal globalization, with groundbreaking exhibitions such as Magicians of the Earth at Centre Pompidou in Paris...

... of The Wretched of the Earth, where decolonization is defined as a tabula rasa intended to change the order of the world, introducing an agenda for total disorder to abolish the oppres- sive relations that characterize the divided world of the colony.17 Even when appealing to a new time, however, or precisely...

... into a earth from which the metal is smelted. dialogue? This and many more ques• He speaks of his people through the 198- Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art non-refined exterior, indigenous physi- unison...

... of the harvest and the residual soot that coats the area when the fires subside. These ashes hold memories of labor and the violent inequities of neo-colonialism. Gazing at Johnson s painting Those without whom the earth would not be the earth, my eyes follow the undulations, tracing the concave and moving...

... her work in spaces and for publics unfamiliar Corporal, 2008. Pigment print on cotton paper. Courtesy the artist Subirós Nka • 95 Security, 2006. Fiberglass sculpture, oil paint, fence, razor wire, 1,000 gloves, earth...

... surroundings. They appear guage in which it was originally Earth. decided "to contrast the element perched, on the brink of rolling composed. The Spanish recita...

... Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 Strom and Doyle Nka 119 Cherry River and the geographic information system registries or Google Colonial Names of Montana Earth, except for the few, slim references that sur- vived the official name-making mapping process. Shane Doyle These few places...

... to calls artist the headscarf, and blouse, skirt, a in cal a scrubbing act: dirt floor. physi a Dressed performs again ing Mutu Earth In the 2006 work ren landscape. bar- a in branches tree at away hacks Cutting video 2004 the In in works. earlier appears her that spectacle el...

... for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg. Left: Untitled (Michelle, Pasvang/ Pasvang, Michelle); right: Untitled (Street Party Saxonwold, African Earth/African Earth, Street Party Saxonwold), 2023. Archival pigment, cotton rag paper, J-Lar tape, 138 x 292 cm. Photo: Chika Okeke-Agulu 110 Nka Journal...

... to inscribe God's creation. Ibn Arabi's extensive meditation was guided by themselves with precision beneath the artist's brush, parting this quest. from the sky and coming back down to earth. In the indecisive...

... of rain were overwhelming: distressed pastoral communities, dead and dying wildlife, desiccated grasslands punctuated by gnarled lifeless boughs, and dusty red earth. Okeke-Agulu Nka 115 View of Artist Studio, 2022. Nairobi, Kenya. Courtesy of the artist Seeing all this, it was impossible...

... companies and individ• know one another, slides of the While pure earth became the main uals in Nigeria, artists drawn from artists' works were presented source of material for painting...

..., frag- again references ritual acts as she performs the part mented, and reassembled, but viewers themselves of medium between two worlds, the tangible earth are also transformed as they engage with Mutu’s and the invisible spirit world. In a forest, Mutu shape-shifting images and provocative...

... and institute authentic sub• jectivities for black peoples. In particular, he represented the FLN at the I960 All Africa People's Conference in Ghana, Accra, where he discussed setting up a second front in the Algerian war. Fanon died in 1961, just before The Wretched of the Earth, his 'primer...

... they were a “sartorial” category.22 In The devolved into a coup that shunted France into an Wretched of the Earth Fanon, too, understands the authoritarian empire. Marx placed some of the Lumpenproletariat as constitutively heterogeneous. blame for this turn on the Lumpenproletariat, who...

... art I found myself again confronting this question, which extends beyond the artistic sphere. Although JHM: The history of art, as it has been written, emerges this earth is a common good, people hold such different from colonial ideas. The reparation would be rather...