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... artists, and Indigenous artists. It is further separated into the Nucleo Contemporaneo (Contemporary Nucleus) and a Nucleo Storico (Historic Nucleus) focused on global modernism. Within the main exhibition, the question of how to tell local histories in relation to the globalized contemporary moment...

... is as cinema, defying the timelessness of empire. Image political as his other works that address postcolonial and sound, now and then, here and there, become contexts and the history and continuation of violent delinked, resembling the way that Deleuze describes oppression.2 These include Caribs’ Leap...

... an ethnographic lens as distant others who are healers or doctors living outside their embodied local and global histories. Giorgis Nka 47 Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation...

...-century, a ti- histories and inheritances of the global art world; tle I see as wholly Okwui s. It was a groundbreaking questioning that very term global; surfacing the moment, one that was humorously seen by certain voices of the invisible within the African, Asian, or critics as Venice being overrun...

...: the Politics of Trans/ work of Cy Twombly alongside the work of artists Nationalism and Global Expositions was explicitly who are more traditionally considered appropriate affected by the ways in which Enwezor staged the for a history invested in transnational South Asia. global exposition in the context...

.... It brings new archival family photographs and fieldwork to discuss a modern Sudan that is curiously absent from the scholarship of both African and Islamic architecture in order to write the global history of modernism in higher resolution. It shows that the verandah was a British colonial architectural...

... and reterritorializing aesthetics to forge their own issues within contexts they control. As a targeted African cultural space within a global Olivier Barlet notes, “At the time of Independence, ow of histories, and seek to reconceive postcolonial lm was about reappropriating one’s own gaze, one’s Africa...

...Perrin M. Lathrop This article assesses the stakes, execution, and implications of Adriano Pedrosa’s intervention into the history of global modernism in Foreigners Everywhere , his 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale, with a focus on the biennale’s representation of artists from Africa and its...

... by the Sharjah Art Foundation November 2016 to January 2017, attests to Nour’s sophistication and rigor as an artist and asserts his contributions to the canon of art history, not only as a transformational figure within Sudanese or African art movements, but also within global modern and contemporary art...

... echoes voguers’ transgression of high fashion in dance competitions. Newsome stages a transnational and transhistorical dialogue between two distinct but interconnected systems of oppression, imperialism and global capitalism, thus sketching a collective history of Black pain and of creative resilience...

... in 1989 and the proliferation of art biennales in the incoming decade. Dak’Art was an important player in this new, global configuration. Yet, the new “art world order” does not fully explain what precipitated Dak’Art. A full picture must include a rigorous engagement with twentieth-century history...

...Salah M. Hassan The 2015 Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective conference, and the companion 2016 exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists ( 1938–1965 ), both held in Cairo, Egypt, explored the history and evolution of the work of Egyptian surrealists and their remarkable...

... who sponsored their appearance there in the wake of the hard-fought passage of the US Voting Rights Act. The Dakar festival was a pivotal, if fraught, moment announcing a new era of independent global black cultural production and modernity. It was also haunted by an earlier and arguably more...

... that it would become a mirror of what was implied in the history of modern art. Today, collections have become the most important, and complicated, issues for muse- ums in a global world. MoMA was soon attacked by both the Region- alists for underrepresenting American artists and the Internationalists...

...- cally, the new “field” of contemporary art history. 94 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 26 • Spring 2010 The current allure and coalescence of discussions I want to end with one other perhaps prosaic about the contemporary and the global has already observation regarding...

... that imbal- ance, endemic to a globally dominant Eurocentric art history. 24 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 DOI 10.1215/10757163-8971271 © 2021 by Nka Publications Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1958/1959. Gelatin silver print, 35.5 x 25.5 cm. © Seydou Keïta/SKPEAC Kerman Nka 25 Samuel...

... and postcolonial history, art history as archive, European decadence—alongside works that emphasize his more recent focus on cinematic strategies and contemporary global politics. By juxtaposing works in different mediums executed over the past fifteen years, this carefully curated and creatively installed show...

... and non-human relations, and looked toward difficult and unacknowledged histories to imagine what might be possible, collectively, now and in times to come. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Black art diaspora migration global art memory colonial history...

...Lydie Diakhaté This article aims to introduce Melvin Edwards’s career and explore, through his work in public art, his ongoing dialogue between his global black consciousness and conceptual art. Edwards is a pioneer and prominent artist in the history of contemporary African American art...

... of the History paintings (late 1980s) might have been the artist’s way of both dealing with and reflecting on the psychology of apartheid as the institution lurched to its inevitable end in 1990. In the early 2000s, before settling on ink and wood glue, Siopis spent a few years producing oil and ink paintings...