...Hannah Sage Kay [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FRANK BOWLING: LONDON/NEW YORK HAUSER AND WIRTH, NEW YORK MAY 5 JULY 30, 2021 expect from binary relationships whether contextual (North and South, regional and global) or aesthetic (light...

...Sophie Sanders [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 SONYA CLARK Constellation of a New American Canon Sophie Sanders The place in which I ll fit will not exist until I make it. James Baldwin H ow does an artist interrogate history and material culture...

... and welcome, but feel compelled to go to and engage with them? Can museums transcend past racism in their collecting and exhibiting practices to create non-racialized spaces for dialogue and encounter? How can public programming and new technologies and spaces (mobile, space) serve to create ways for all...

...Jody B. Cutler Since the turn of the new millennium, Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977), American celeb artist of the moment, has delivered a broadly appealing oeuvre to the center of the art world on a silver platter. Like other fans, a majority of art cognoscenti have been seduced by Wiley’s celebratory...

.... Among its concluding considerations are the ways in which much of this new scholarship emanates from US rather than from British universities. Finally, the article urges a “rescuing from obscurity” of important pioneering texts on black British artists. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019...

... place. The end of the Soviet empire and the German reunification in 1990 represent such disruptions of a taken-for-granted continuum. They required a rewriting of national and continental memory in reaction to drastically new constellations: the construction of a neoliberal European unity out of decades...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu Ghada Amer’s 2010 work 100 Words of Love is the product of a tactical realignment with aesthetic principles evident in her early work, and a radical rearticulation of those principles as groundwork for new sculptural forms. While it is impossible to predict the works’ reception...

... the story of humanity and the unending struggle of people to survive. [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Africa Ethiopia exile multimedia sublimity Reflections on Imageries of Seductive Sublimity New Paintings of Kebedech Tekleab Rihab Kassatly Bagnole I t...

...Olu Oguibe Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 DLU DGUIBE DN PEPDN DSDRID'S NEW INSTALLATION n an article by Holland Cotter in the New York Times in 1995, material environment and the resonance of images, he...

... independence this area has yet to be announcement of the death of Guelwaar, a for Sembene) has it, subordination is assured decolonized), and the cool cosmopolitanism proud and determined local political leader by a steady stream of aid that creates bonds of of the new...

...Liz Mermin Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 1998 NewYork African Film Festival liz mermin his year's New Yo rk A frican F ilm on o pe ning night: Zo la Maseko's short The bl eak and its not clear in th e end who, if Fes tival...

... tion as a black man of Caribbean FRANK BOWLING: origin. What this means in prac• New Pictures...

...Carl E. Hazlewood Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 Mohammed Omer Khalil L New Work — Skoto Gallery New York, 2002 The idea of an African moder• nity as far as art is concerned may still cause...

... South and New Terrors Riché Richardson...

...Kristen Windmuller-Luna Now approaching his second decade of fine arts practice, Zwelethu Mthethwa continues to use color photography and artist-subject collaborations to restore the dignity of his sitters. New Works at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, consisting of seventeen digital C...

... the history of the New York Zoological Society, commonly called the Bronx Zoo. In Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society, first...

... of black subjects in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and New Orleans. With Mthethwa’s customary saturated color, subtle composition, and exacting attention to ephemeral detail, the images depicted the reach of politics in the aesthetics of everyday life. They also revealed the artist’s interest in the longer...

... aluminum; overall (in situ): 27½ × 242 × 4 5/8 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Marcia Dunn and Jonathan Sobel, E.2010.0309a – b. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. © Glenn Ligon. Photo: Sheldan C. Collins Journal of Contemporary African...