...Salah Hassan Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 Little Big Horn on the Seine Salah Hassan on Ousmane Sow's Epic...

...Daniel Horn [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Dakar s Salon Confrontation of 1966 Daniel Horn I n the flurry of communications toward organizing the survey of contemporary African-descended art for the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN), the exhibition...

... from to the powers of blackness. Like many other aspects performance. of these photos produced under the sign of fash- In 1824 the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi ion, an industry in which Barboza has worked for brought fashion and death into dialogue, revealing most of his life, the horn...

... the culture it inhabits to reveal its historical and present tensions, especially those arising from labor relationships. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 Simon Gush, The Wolf’s Theme, 2009. French horns, music stands, scores of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf...

..." in art-historical language, is that which Unearthed 6 and Unearthed 7 hold objects in their most fully represents humanity.16 Yet subtle dif• hands, referring to power, spiritual and magical. ferences between the figures emerge in elements Horns, such as those held by Unearthed 6...

... to do. At the forefront of their efforts are new readings of eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century American portraiture. In Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery (2022), for example, art historian Jennifer Van Horn attends to the anti-Blackness at the heart of American...

... Kobena Mercer Journal of Contemporary African Art • 33 • Fall 2013 80 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2352830  © 2014 by Nka Publications Kobena Mercer Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985 – 86. Reinforced plaster, animal bone, horn, oil...

... Horn's kinetic work. Certainly, the (Time Out, August 31, 2005, p. 62) 1 1 work's appeal is its capacity to which was between love and war, Assefa Gebrekidan's new sculptural embody—more deeply than...

... either with kohl devils are Bambi-horned and, in a sort or the last attempted suicide, a figure of evolutionary in-joke, the Madonna is slinking through the shadows...

..., deceptive identity which cloth animals.Long-horned buffalo? even decadent. Marcia Kure's Latest exhibit, offers in a multi-ethnic Nigeria. Elephants? Rhinoceroses? Giraffes...

...- REVIEWS dresses resembling cows’ horns. Meanwhile, Turkana, by Jehad Nga, captures the people of the Turkana re- gion of Kenya in their finery, but the darkness that consumes each sitter comments upon the tribe’s dwindling numbers due to drought. Yinka...

... of the sixty were born identity and the denial of this three artists from Nigeria. Nine horn ends in a flower. Similarly, in after 1960...

... brutality toward African Americans and Robert Morris, among other American sculptors and other minorities.14 painters. Such practices were negatively associated The domes and arches, cattle horns, calabashes, with the reduction in form and bare abstrac­ and sand hills that are implicitly referenced...

... In fact, the holiest objects in the Horn of Africa, those imbued exhibition of Mouride art, "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of with the greatest baraka, or blessing, are usually natural land for• Urban Senegal" displayed more than four hundred objects. mations left...

... was generating among New Yorkers and the “Boy here became quite unmanageable,” Hornaday press. . . . Benga loved entertaining the crowds, sing- wrote in an undated letter to Verner. “Will not obey ing, dancing and playing his horn, and he wanted 172 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39...

... The horn. the atop mounted aspade and it holding hands of apair with wall, the on mounted asaxophone of consists works, known best- artist’s (1973),Bird the of one wings. of apair like adistance, from looks, that hair,plaster and records, of (1983), assemblage an Fantasy...

... the strains of Sun atically intertwined — has become a key term in WRa’s “Space Is the Place” growing louder, first the global artistic discourse. For cultural practitioners horns and then voices raised in unison. When we of various stripes, collective practice has offered an finally rounded...

... Over the past twenty-­six years AfriCOBRA has Of the many artists known to AfriCOBRA, held around fifty exhibitions in diverse venues —  Skunder Boghossian, from the Horn of Africa from activist community centers to mainstream in the east, and Papa Ibra Tall, from the western universities...

...- cold. Olu called Okwui later that evening to say, sion for young militants trying to change the world When Kendell took off his beanie, I did not see any with African art. Three years earlier, Documenta 9 horns, and that was all Okwui needed to hear from director Jan Hoet had entirely dismissed...

... from horns on the front of a motor-scooter provide that Mory is certain enough of his masculinity Africa are expected to work. A new generation the transition from dying cows to living to see through Anta's clothes. The rich man of filmmakers in Senegal, inspired...