...Anna Arabindan-Kesson akesson@princeton.edu © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS LUBAINA HIMID TATE MODERN NOVEMBER 25, 2021 OCTOBER 2, 2022 Throughout Lubaina Himid s practice, textiles have often materialized the dialogic relationship she cultivates with audiences, activating...

... exhibitions have been conspicu- ously brought into the fold of British art by way of honors awarded by Her Majesty the Queen or the bestowal of Royal Academician status by that au- gust institution. Saleem Arif, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Sokari Douglas Camp, Lubaina Himid, and Ronald Moody, The Onlooker...

... solid, though not fully defined, identity. women are depicted in bright colors, naked, Lubaina Himid's Restoring the Balance repre• bound, and with faces scratched out, as if to sents today's Black woman as the descendant say: "Here is what you are really up...

... narratives of racial and ethnic identity in art-historical assessments of works by black and diaspora artists.3 These critiques are not new, nor is the stilted discourse that they observe. They join the voices of Rasheed Araeen, Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper, Veronica Ryan, Rotimi...

... layers in whites. When I went to Trent [Polytechnic] I d been brought up in the tradition of painting, Rodney admitted in conversation with Lubaina Himid. I knew how to paint. I knew the history of painting. I knew my Picassos, my everything. 16 Rodney in- tended not so much to make work that stood...

... of Contemporary African Art • 35 • Fall 2014 nemouth, Magdalene Odundo created a Spode china dinner 20 Mary Evans, interview by the author, London, UK, February service with a pink pattern that featured personal family pho- 10, 2005. tographs. Lubaina Himid’s Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner 21 Mary...

..., “It’s a Bit Much,” n.p. artists as diverse as Lubaina Himid, Donald Rodney, 24 Doy, “The Subject of Painting,” 46. 25 Walker, interview by the author, September 2013. Maud Sulter, Marlene Smith, Ingrid Pollard, Keith 26 Ibid. Piper...