... the experience and memory of the urban space of Luanda through a photographic and performative interaction with its objects, it speaks of the complexities and contradictions inherent to the contemporary condition of dwelling in the global city. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017...

... African common.” Nzewi offers insight into the anonymous exhibition within Dak’Art and his idea of a “density of the commons” and communitarian solidarity in African cultures. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 Dak’Art Biennale contemporary African art exhibitions...

...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 1994 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1994 ...

...David Hecht Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 SPIRIT David Hecht [Certain art occupies an intercultural space with] a double coding, which brings it always the threat of co-option or mis-appropriation, yet...

..., but his true saviors have languished in obscurity. Fortunately, the true story of Ota Benga’s tragic sojourn from the Congo to the United States can be reconstructed by returning to hundreds of documents stored in numerous archives across the United States. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary...

..., they inspire it. 2 Later, Henein prolifically published essays and presented lectures on surrealism, in Cairo, in French. 100 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9435709 © 2021 by Nka Publications Ramses Younan, L Acrobate, 1959. Graphite and ink on paper. Source...

...Ivor Powell Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 11_reviews:nka_book_size 2/28/10 6:35 PM Page 158 tives, essentially...

.... Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 70 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-010  © 2010 by Nka Publications Meschac Gaba’s The Street Meschac Gaba...

... and society were discussed and explored. As such, the gallery partook of the broad political struggles of the times and contributed to the city’s remarkable artistic diversity. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Greg Edwards. Annie Bianucci, George Evans, and Suzanne Jackson...

... collectivity and articulating the centrality of black cultural practices to them. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. BLACK COLLECTIVITIES An Introduction...

... his works, for the first time, into the art establishment that initially rejected him. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Journal of Contemporary African Art • 31 • Fall 2012 142 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-1586508  © 2012...

... the 1940s, it earned favorable attention from key art journals. I argue that its warm reception indexes the painting’s ability to speak differently to different constituencies, from mainstream and African American modernists to the activists in the Black Arts and peace movements then beginning to make waves...

...Okwui Enwezor; Salah M. Hassan; Chika Okeke-Agulu Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 a magazine committed to an as-yet-unrecognized From the Editors field was virtually nonexistent...

...Eric Kofi Acree Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 144* IVIka Journal of Contemporary African Art On Lynching Selected References Eric Kofi Acree Books: rom the end of Civil War until...

... Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Kerry James Marshall, Heirlooms and Accessories, 2002. Inkjet prints on paper in wooden frames with rinestones. Three parts, 87 x 54.25 x 3 in. each. Courtesy of the Artist 134* Nka Journal of Contemporary...

...Kathe Sandler Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 9_sandler:nka_book_size 2/28/10 6:32 PM Page 144 BRIGHT MOMENTS The Life and Work of ST. CLAIR BOURNE...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu; Salah M. Hassan © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 From the Editors W hen we announced, in issue no. 44 of this In early 1994, Okwui reached out to a number journal, the March 15, 2019, death of our of us young artists, critics, and scholars scattered dearest friend, brother...

... Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective conference When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists ( 1938–1965 ) Art and Liberty group Contemporary Art Group When Art Becomes Liberty The Egyptian Surrealists (1938 1965) Salah M. Hassan 8 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49...

... is the ques- tion of what happens when the news media tires of Journal of Contemporary African Art • 36 • May 2015 62 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2914328 © 2015 by Nka Publications The cry of a people: “Revolution.” Mohamed Mahmoud Street...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 TROPIQUES and the Surrealist Movement in Martinique Manthia Diawara T ropiques (1941 45), a cultural journal edited by Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, and Aimé Césaire, takes its place between Légitime Défense (1932) and Présence...