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

...Kimberli Gant This essay explores the photographic series Queen Nanny of the Maroons (2004–5) by artist Renée Cox. In the series Cox appropriates the eighteenth-century Jamaican folk hero Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Maroon community, and brings her into the present. Very little is known...

... little significance to the substantial modernist interventions of such works. These complex works of art cannot be purely described in terms of contrasts such as reality versus fantasy or in contexts of a long-gone tradition that has waned. They are still produced in contemporary times, fantastically...

.... Murillo’s response sheds new light on the rich yet little explored local black Brazilian art production. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 Oscar Murillo black Brazilian art performance art Black performance Brazil ...

...Barbara Murray In 1962, African and international delegates met in Africa for the First International Congress of African Culture. This little-known event showcased the superb aesthetics and power of both classic and contemporary African arts, refuted bias and misrepresentations, and demonstrated...

...Maria Golia Over the course of three years researching thousands of old photographs for her 2010 book Photography and Egypt (Reaktion Books), the author came across few examples of what might be termed “surrealist photography” in Egypt and little evidence for the exhibitions organized by Art...

...Anna Wallace-Thompson As a group show, Trade Roots presented an interesting selection of artists tied together by a common denominator. While at first glance the practices of these diverse artists appeared to have little in common, all three presented works that explored the ways in which our world...

... his artwork, he remains in many ways an enigma. Out of the little that is known, LeFalle-Collins puts together a picture of an artist who, throughout his career, often sought to understand himself. Early on, Johnson believed that art could not be separated from its social context and followed the lead...

... retrospective look, since its curators were tempted to exhibit its own collection, so unique up until the sixties, in the new exhibition halls. This launched a dilemma for MoMA, as it became a place for past art with little space for new art. In an in-depth analysis of what constitutes “modern” art...

.... Rocket later reveals that the rest of the city, not least of which is that his way out depends the lookout, Little Dice, played an instrumental role in what hap• on the continuing isolation and violence of the place that pro• pened that night. Little Dice disappears and returns...

...• brings us most of Keita's large por• and often upredictable journey to the yawn, a distracting itch, would be too teen forties, and so there was little op...

... Hughes or Pablo Neruda. It was on Christmas and choirs sing in church, at Sunday school. That was all Valentine cards and birthday cards, so I wasn't seeping in. A little later at the junior high school where exposed to much literature, and in the high schools I went I played...

... to play, to play in other skies. I had no materials. I used my fingers to scribble something in the sand, and little by little when I was in school I started to have some white paper with the ballpoint pens. With pencils, I was making drawings. I copied comics from the entertainment magazines that were...

... in the history of European conquering assault on the rest of the world: the Battle of the Little Bighorn. At the said battle the Sioux and Cheyenne under the brilliant command of their youthful general, Crazy Horse, humiliated United States Forces under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, seizing...

...• attempted to implement fully their cultural philosophy which animated and independence, she does little to ratic reforms. assimilation policies. While they soon Senghorian policy was a tense dy...

... an expensive watch; it is not a sounding instru- death, in a little while. Death would come in 1991, ment but an accessory; a visual signi er of unique- six years a er the You’re under Arrest shoot, a er ness, of stylistic unmistakability; and a commitment years of ill health and intermittent withdrawal...

... is desirable very little economic wealth to support it? or not for contemporary art is what has brought me to Dak'Art Crespin answers her own question with an obviously sin• 2002. Dak'Art 2002, the 5th Biennale of Comtemporary cere statement...

... the bus driver drove us to the bar and told us he had to do something administra- later. I liked his ripping satire theater very much. You know tive and left us outside for about an hour. I mean, everything those little organizations? When I say little...

... the argument otherizes African cuLtural prac• ernism in Africa. moment made up of domains squarely on course. Nevertheless, tices. It is a system little exam• The relevant point here is of shared discrepant meanings...

... of Contemporary African Art Belgian rule, often featuring images of prison camps, slave marches, cation networks. One might say then that they are the visual embod• and rituals of punishment. It is little wonder this genre developed in iments of radio trottoir (the understanding of events shaped...