..., authentic) 64 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9729120 © 2022 by Nka Publications International on a Local Modernism Jacob Lawrence, Street to Mbari, 1964. Glue tempera, opaque watercolor, and graphite on wove paper, 56.52 x 78.42 cm. National Gallery of Art...

... the United States) stands in contrast to the secondhand clothing imports that are sold in Haiti’s various marketplaces for local consumption. Used clothing is often imported to Haiti from the same markets that receive its new clothing exports. Secondhand clothing is frequently redesigned to suit local taste...

...Sunanda K. Sanyal Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 The Local and Beyond: Francis Nnaggenda's Sculptural Innovations...

.... Cullen Washington: I’ll answer this question in terms of Our conversation gave me an opportunity to let a young what is local and what is universal, but first let me give and promising painter speak out about his reflections on the working definitions.Local refers to my personal history...

... multiple outreach strategies. Most important, they invited a significant percentage of Congolese artists, who were able to bring the local and the global into fruitful dialogue through their historical consciousness of geopolitics. Various strategies for working on site are compared. Without a well...

... considers how portrait photography was not an expression of a local modernity, in the way the concept is narrated in established studies of the cultural dimensions of globalization, but was an expression of the in-between. This can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism or creolization, depending...

...-institutional contexts. Resourceful curators across the world have successfully translated his models into critical formats and inventive ways of producing social and political knowledge, carefully adjusted to local contexts and needs. The aim of this article is to trace the influential postcolonial “platforms...

..., local articulation of black consciousness on Chicago’s South Side in 1967 in order to illustrate how local dimensions of black consciousness relate to the making of a global black consciousness. Crawford’s starting point is a photo archive of Bob Crawford, her father, a photographer who worked...

... of ethnic or xenophobic closure, and it may foreground an effective cosmopolitanism that ensures social rights on a local and a transnational level. The author considers not only the European nationalist tradition but also the ways in which it was appropriated and redefined in non-European places...

... vociferously against nationalism in politics and art, both locally and regionally. In doing so, they shifted the audience of modern Egyptian art and created a new, transnational public. For these reasons, the author calls this movement the “Beautiful Black Cloud” of modern Egyptian Art. It was violent, stormy...

... in was characterized by many of the markers of industrial disintegration: widespread unemployment, decaying infrastructure, increased drug addiction, and palpable rage and despair about the collapse of the economy and local industry, among them. Frazier uses her photographic practice to document some...

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

... and labels rely on the tired tropes of the tribal and traditional to create fantastical pan-African architectural typologies, undermining genuine explorations of the local. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 African architecture urban cities tradition contemporary...

...” shows, a race-based exhibition format that Cahan asserts maintains hierarchical divisions in museums. Chapter 1 traces the history of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the competing ideologies that led from its transition as an interracial site of collaboration to a space of local and black leadership...

...Holiday Powers The artists of the Casablanca Ecole des Beaux-Art under the directorship of Farid Belkahia, through their own personal practice as well as their pedagogy, tried to root the aesthetics of international modernism in a distinctly Moroccan idiom by using local referents. Following...

...’ progress, suggesting that the magazine’s local print transnationalism in this key period adds texture to our understanding of global black consciousness. popular culture Bingo magazine female mobility Francophone audience print Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 ...

... of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe), initiated by the institution’s director, Frank McEwen. This essay provides background information, analysis of the context, summaries of some of the important papers presented, and looks at the local and international impact. African art history African music African...

..., regardless of geographic locale. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 AfriCOBRA Black Arts movement Black Nationalism Chicago riot African diaspora VULNERABLE TO VIOLENCE JEFF DONALDSON’S ALA SHANGO and the Erasure of Diasporic Difference Nicholas Miller...

... look at the history of the gesture in apartheid-era visual culture, however, quickly reveals the importance of local context, and the mutable associations of the raised fist. Moreover, as several theorists and historians of South African photography have suggested, a static, humanizing view of gesture...

... the links between quieter, consistent practices of nomadism, the insistence of localism in his choices, and the attention to detail and aesthetic pleasure wrought from human labor and the passing of time. This article examines the propitious union of conceptual and aesthetic choices in Anatsui’s oeuvre...