... in founding the Art and Liberty group on January 9, 1939. The connection between the declaration and the group was so strong that a number of contemporaries referred to them as the Degenerate Art Collective. The group defined its goals as: Defending the freedom of art and culture Producing modern...

... the visual arts and modernity, was the perfect stage for Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West, the fifth in the series of visual art conferences held in Paris in January 2013. The essays offered in this special issue of Nka were gathered from that historic meeting and offer the most cutting-edge...

... as a translucent stained-glass Madonna and later as the portrait motifs of seven hundred fifty stars arranged as the celestial constellation above the Caribbean capital of Haiti at the instant of January 2010’s devastating earthquake. Even today, his art practice continues to articulate the body, be it present...

...Lewis Watts In January 2013, I came to Paris for the first time in forty years to present work at the first Black Portraiture[s] conference. I had planned to photograph there but had no agenda. My interest was piqued on the train from Charles de Gaulle airport, when five young black men in hoodies...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner The recent exhibition Charles White: A Retrospective (Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 2018–January 13, 2019) offered a chance to consider the technical and iconographic breadth of an oeuvre that has been exhibited mainly in sporadic doses for the past few decades...

... 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...

... In January 1977, Lagos, Nigeria, was hosting the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC). It was a grander version of the first World Festival of Black Arts (FESMAN), held in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, and gathered fifteen thousand participants coming from more than...

... updates on January 26, 2011, he was severely beaten by Cen- tral Security Forces while participating in demon- strations. Despite this, he returned to the streets...

... Alemayehu’s bust in marble and concluded by expressing how it would aff ord him the greatest possible pleasure if he could submit the bust for her “Gracious Majesty’s Inspection.”15 Clearly Th rop was not privy to the palace orga- nizational chart, for his feisty letter of January 12, 1880...

.... It tional impact of the wail for Haloba, Lusaka, Zambia, offers viewers in Lusaka both the the lack of visual stimulus inside the January 2004 expected (two-dimensional works on AIDS Tunnel...

... in various ways, to pres- ent distinct poetics from different generations and backgrounds, and to see what reflections would emerge from that. Installation view of Summer Exhibition 2020 (October 6, 2020 January 3, 2021) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour, London...

...Silvi Naçi RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019160 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917228 © 2019 by Nka Publications ALL LANGUAGES WELCOMED HERE DELL MARIE HAMILTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS JANUARY 10 FEBRUARY 8, 2019 The wounds of the Spirit heal...

...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho Cindy@nae.org.uk © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

... January 21–March 3,2012 21–March January...

..., 2013–January 9, 2014. Situated within the Queen’s State Apartments at Kensing- ton Palace on the corner of Kensington Gardens, Mortimer’s work challenges the viewer...

... Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 The Egyptian Surrealists (1938 65) Selected Timeline of Important Events 1900 1908 (May) The Cairo School of Fine Arts opens in Cairo. 1910 1913 Ramses Younan is born in Minya, Egypt. 1914 (January 20) Georges Henein is born in Cairo. 1919 Popular...

..., and Culture in Black LA,” innovative methods to produce art that explores Emergences 9 (1999): 271–89; and Jones, “Black West.” current political, social, and spiritual issues. In their 3. Suzanne Jackson, “Gallery 32 and Its Circle,” January 27, 2009...

... with everything. 1 Williams was a member of the United States delegation to the Second Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in Nigeria, which ran from January 15 to February 12, 1977. FESTAC was a vast international gathering of around sixty African nations and Black diaspora delegations, who...

... October 2012 until January 2013. January 2012 until October Institute of Chicago, which ran from from ran which...