...Grant Farred “When I was nineteen, Miles Davis put his finger on my soul, and it never went away,” Stuart Hall reflects in John Akomfrah’s documentary, The Stuart Hall Project . Miles Davis not only “touched” Hall’s soul, but the music and its many moods, its vagaries, its experimentations provided...

...Anthony Barboza; Barry Maxwell The musician Miles Davis, subject of a group of portrait photographs by Anthony Barboza, presents himself in the photographs as an armature of fashion objects. With reference to the work of Walter Benjamin and Giacomo Leopardi, this introduction to Barboza’s...

...Elza Miles Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 AN APPRECIATION Elza Miles he doyen of the visual artists of South Africa, died on October 25, the doctor's surgery to learn that the child is dead. Her narrative, vivid• T 2002...

.... It is impulsive and organ• joined an evangelical singing biography, Miles Davis said, left an incredible impact on the art. ized...

...), for the Biennia l exhibition. "Dressed in a cape• less Superman suit and with an ergonomic skateboard that allows him to rest on his back while traveling forward," the Whitney press release explains that he would "trek twenty two miles, starting at the Statue of Liberty and traversi ng the entire lengt h...

... when Dentsu advertising agency in Japan was going to do Workshop? What made it your academy? a television commercial on Miles (Davis), for the Van Liquor Company, they brought half the crew, and I said we have Anthony Barboza: I didn’t go...

... do not need to understand. news cameras to the spray painted points along the road where James Byrd lost his elbows and other bits of skin that surely, for him, were not so easily removable, not so easily unzipped—it had to be dragged off him in mile after agoniz• ing mile. Oddly enough...

... in southeastern Montana, come from, what they mean, or why they are impor- about one mile north of the site of the famous Battle tant. Like an amnesiac who awakes with no memory of the Little Bighorn. Growing up in the 1970s and of its point of origin, our contemporary American 1980s, it was known as the Custer...

... it. A Xena the Warrior I worked. At the time he was as surprised that I Princess action figure is pinned to the wall next to knew something about his work as I was that he taped-up black and white images of Miles Davis, invited me out to visit him in Connecticut. In our Billie...

...- the caption, We crossed the River at position to slavery, popular revolution- tive American presence employed sig- McKonkey s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton ary rhetoric shared by other slave-own- nifying shorthand with red silhouettes . . . the night was excessively severe ing patriots: . . . is life so dear...

... of transit where persons would wait until moved to another place. If, as William F. S. Miles affirms, the Holocaust has meaning from a Third World per- spective principally when placed in the global con- text of the history of racism, the relations at play in Paradise challenge any accumulative...

... during his long absence. With the exception imagery, names, and places. This is evident in works of Elza Miles’s brief review in Beeld, there was little such as Welcome to Tsolo, which refers to a place engagement with Maqhubela’s new work. in the Eastern Cape where Thamsanqa Maqhubela...

..., and visitors are unwelcome. However, the images bring Nanny into the twenty-first cen- tourism does occur within present-day Moore tury, the majority are temporally ambiguous, as if Town, or New Nanny Town, which is located several Nanny’s exploits can occur at any time. miles away from the original...

... - the South African artist Ernest Mancoba and the Ethiopian artist Skunder Boghossian - passed away as we were preparing for this issue of Nka. We are proud to include in this issue a moving tribute to Mancoba by Elza Miles, the South T African scholar and art critic. We are also extremely...

... Amherst, about sixty miles from Du Du from miles sixty about Amherst...

... Central Avenue. and a half miles square, bordered by Crenshaw Wealthy black Angelenos gravitated to Leimert Boulevard, Leimert Boulevard, 43rd Street, and Park and to the Hills. Leimert Park Village became 43rd Place. The village was developed by Wal- one of the first communities in Los Angeles...

... at the side twentieth- ­ and twenty-first-­ century­ commentary, you see only a little. They are also about memory and in some cases rather ambiguously. We don’t in Bebop. And Miles Davis’ omission of notes that always know what the commentary is trying to say, leaves a ragged disembodied...

..., as in the example, "Uncle mile-markers gave out, and not much more, there Arthur, Mama's brother? He just turned up missing." you would have found the place, and the Digbys too. I have seen the first image anew, many times. Unremarkable in its decline, some common gruel I was twenty...

...—a home for Miles much larger than the Earth. through a forest of pillars. The massive scale of Cosmological concerns also loom large in Black the works and the sheer weight of the thick layers Monolith IV for Jacob Lawrence (2001), a subtly of paint are notable in multipaneled works such shaped...

... harragas, landless immigrants, would have stripped off their wet clothes in the middle of the night and tried to hide from naval authorities. There would have been no trace of human beings for several miles around. At their backs was the sea, memory, in front of them an unknown land and uncertainty...