...Maryline Lostia Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 R AC KID KORAICHI Letters of Clay Homage to Ibn Arab? Maryline Lostia 84-Nka Journal of Contemporary...

...Rebecca Wolff [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Assembling 106 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9729162 © 2022 by Nka Publications Pan-Africanism in Melvin Edward s Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas Rebecca...

..., in October 2011. More than any other artist, Kentridge has shaped international perceptions of apartheid in South Africa. This exhibition pays due homage to that achievement but also insists on recognizing the artist’s prodigious visual inventiveness, the worldwide relevance of his work. Recently he has been...

... Mae Weems paid direct homage to Enwezor s lifetime of achievements with The In Between (2022 23), a space she describes as neither here nor there, between leaving and arriving, a point of departure with a destination imagined but unknown. 1 Weems s two-room installation resonated as an experiential...

..., the artist found Homage to Love and Memory consists of twenty- herself drawn to the Paul Robeson house. This one large banners hung at the Church of the house was primarily owned by Marian Forsythe, Advocate in North Philadelphia. Prints made from Paul Robeson's sister, and he lived there with her...

...- lective, Spiral, spearheaded by Romare Bearden, in a subtle homage to their only public exhibition.3 The sole woman affiliated, Emma Amos, was represented by a landscape-suggestive abstract, Black and White Spiral Painting (1964), mutually enhanced by the stylistic shift of her flatly bold, realist Eva...

... the mystique of this ancient city, are more than a political statement. It is homage to the charged and powerful emotion that Belkahia felt upon visiting a city where memory is crystallized through organized strata borne out of centuries of relics and belief systems, of movements of conquerors...

..., London, which paid homage to Okwui, and invited me to show a work: Cha Cha Cha, a triptych relating to the Within Reach series. Chris Ofili was born in the United Kingdom and is based in Trinidad, West Indies. Note 1 Okwui Enwezor, Shattering the Mirror of Tradition: Chris Ofili s Triumph of Painting...

... as the sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, New York Public Library at 135th Street and Lenox to whose bronze Ethiopia Awakening (1914) Jones’s Avenue (now the Schomburg Center for Research in work pays homage. The Ascent of Ethiopia, which Black Culture), where regular art exhibitions, dra- celebrated the racial...

... machetes similarly signify a retaining of belief in a world of African or West African spirits, sustained through centuries of enslavement. Now, in the ­twenty-first century, homage and reverence is being paid by Sinclair s ma­ chetes to the spirit world to which enslaved Africans frequently turned...

... production. artistic contemporary own his of text con- in the master old of this critique a launches and to homage pays ously simultane- he as source rococo his in championed structure and dence class the deca undermines head, Shonibare figure’s female the as well...

... and deceptive to the mind and the senses. racial meaning. Plato's reservations towards the deceptive powers of art is fully In Leak (2000) Rhode clearly pays an irreverent homage to fleshed out in Pliny's anecdote of Zeus' grapes...

... sculpture recitals have paid homage to the Harlem Renaissance writers Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, the musician John Coltrane, the former slave Solomon Northrop, and the artist's own father, Robert Hamilton Adkins (1927-1995). Imagined History Along with other black artists who...

... into an awareness of art as both a skill and a voca- tion. He joined Durant Sihlali’s weekend artist’s Martin Nka • 21 Greetings Cecil, 2009. Print from the Homage to Skotnes Portfolio...

... possibly be there in the way that I ing of art, something which I seldom problematic sense of what such a re• homages to I'Ecole de Dakar, the post would recognize. I was told by an experience in the world of Chelsea verse voyage could mean. Taking...

... Seduction / Displacement at White Box in Walker's Detourism and to the Hemicycle New York City, exemplary of Allen's archi• Gallery at the Corcoran in DC, 2001. tectonic homage to apartheid architecture, is discussed by art historian Andres Mario Lauri Firstenberg is curator of Artists Zervignon...

...Isaac Julien © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Curating at the My core artistic premise and point of departure to Royal Academy curate the first two galleries of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition 2020 was to 2020 pay homage to my friend, the late, great...

... fairytales and mythic histories. also central to the work of Hassan Khan. Khan works in various While on one level the work functions as a lyrical homage to moving image mediums and rigorously engages the problemat• humanity, the satirical orientalist imagery, desert landscape...

... version of a principle of a transitory and improvised market display as an history of the proper name, the idea of homage has been quite underlying compositional grid. Objects and documents are liter• central to many of Adeagbo's installations such as La ally laid out...

... The biennale project SPRING paid homage to the and mixed by Jin Won Lee (a .k.a. GAZAEBAL) de Janeiro Carnival, with the polluting effect of The Artistic Contract Gwangju Democratic movement and to the spirit during the procession and used as the score...