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... discourses, Fred Holland’s sculptures are reflections on life’s impermanence, on human frailty, and on the struggle for survival. He walks the line between the categories that have defined black art in a constant search for reinvention and renewal. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

...Holland Cotter Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 ill EROS CRUISES THE MUSEUM IN A FILMMAKER'S DREAMS Holland Cotter he...

...Holland Cotter Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 given mainstage treatment. ly a show of young, art-school- ments of public advertising...

... forum to move Interestingly, Al Nitaq and Cairo Modern Art in Holland were beyond the confines of the national. The founder and director at times met hostilely with questions being asked regarding of Townhouse Gallery, William Wells, quickly established his pri...

...• European countries for the contemporary art is taking in enon of "black" confessionals "The In their catalogue essays, the Biennial (Portugal and Holland...

..., the Biennial (Portugal and Holland South Africa. Being a non-commer• New Slave Narratives." judges articulately masked their respectively). While Dumas was not cial exhibition, Vita Art Now has own personal...

... of desertion and emptiness. I do not believe that poverty is equal to social commentary.8 Similarly, Holland Cotter's review of Mthethwa's exhibition in New York in degradation. For me colour restores peo• June 2000 identifies...

... when he was confronted with the ambivalence so often surrounding African art in Holland. On one hand, interest in non-western art is growing, almost too prolifically...

...Olu Oguibe Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 DLU DGUIBE DN PEPDN DSDRID'S NEW INSTALLATION n an article by Holland Cotter in the New York Times in 1995, material environment and the resonance of images, he...

... and abroad. Drawn traditionally on parchment, the sophisticated and complicated lines of telsem consist of symbols that are spectacularly expressive. New York Times art critic Holland Cotter once referred to telsem art as visual knockouts. 1 But the conventional knowledge base for telsem art in Western art...

... in such an interna• end in 'ism' or 'tion': post-modernism, the artist has traced the origin of the tional exhibition almost gives credence post-colonialism, post-nationalism, fabric from Indonesia to Holland to 48»Nka [Journal of Contemporary African Art Britain...

... York acy. As New York Times critic Holland Cotter wrote of her in 2007: rorism of lynching, an interesting play on the col- And then there is the theme: race. It dominates every- thing, yet within it, Ms...

... works in film, in the have, since the talkies, bought into a con• Holland Cotter on McQueen's Deadpan, intertexts between cinema and art. His tract to remain physically and sensorily (if New York Times, January 23, 1998. works to date have been...

...- Hamburgh, the East Country and Holland, besides tion of palaces and fortresses and the necessity to what we shipped for Spain and the Streights, etc.”4 enslave, is not, however, specific to colonial slavery. Bonded labor and free trade were connected. In his Nevertheless, colonial slavery introduced...

... categories, faulting the artist s attempt to work in European style but heaping praise on the work that remains faithful to the rich traditions of his own people. Indeed, the piece deemed Cousins superior to others in Holland attempting to imitate African art, particularly experimentalists, a phrase...

... or embody an ideal. However, the agency as a defense against self-exploitation. motivation for the model can be quite personal. Maudelle lived and worked in a period of the According to Elizabeth Hollander, a former art 34*Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... label, IMPORTED from Holland The Original vividly with temptation. Quality. I was not accustomed to the sharp, crisp London We spoke about art and politics and our com- air and felt the cold cut its way through the skin of mon struggle to find respect as African artists. We my shaved head. I wore...

... photography’s intellectual interior portraits, the intimate lay- 6. Riegl, Group Portraiture of Holland, 367. and emotional capacity to engage ers of personal experience assume a 7. Okwui Enwezor, “Photography after the visible world as a richly evocative beautiful complexity, indexed...

.... 500,000 in France." England, Holland, Spain and Portugal have Egyptian physician and activist Nawal El Sadaawi writes that similar colonial karma. immigrants, those who possess more than one culture, "under• Neo-imperialist demands on the Middle East coupled...

... landscap e of th e fam ily wine farm, 1976, aged twenty-three, to engage in fur ther a place fraught with its ow n conflicts:"Africa strug• study in Holland. I The re she enco untered paint • gles with nature. Droughts and floods and ances• ing in the real, instead of th rough reproduc tion, to rs...