...Nadine S. Kibanda Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 theoretical essays by other writers, MONKEY'S RIGHT TO PAINT...

...Indie A. Choudhury Frank Bowling’s white paintings span a period of some forty years in his practice, resulting in an eponymously titled exhibition The White Paintings (2006). As a body of work, the paintings occupy the longest period within Bowling’s career yet are largely absent from his...

.... However, the conventional knowledge base for telsem art in Western art-historical provisions has been cabalistic. Modernism, as a field of study, persists in classifying the sophisticated forms, exuberant colors, lines, shapes, and conceptually complex arrangement of telsem paintings in categories...

.... The series, only recently seen in its entirety in an exhibition curated by the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York, of Ringgold’s 1960s paintings, should be considered a brilliant contribution to the trajectory and consequently the narrative of American art at all levels. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal...

...Manthia Diawara Since 2015, Cheikh Ndiaye has been painting the most famous theaters between Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and Dakar, Senegal, including their emblematic names: the Mansour, Liberté, VOG, Vox, ABC, Rio, the Medina, and Le Paris, et cetera. The artist’s obsessive paintings are without...

...Gabriella Nugent This article explores the entanglement of Congolese popular painting with photography through the case of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba’s final public appearance...

...Blake Oetting [email protected] © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 Looking for Beauford The Greene Street Paintings, 1936 1952 Blake Oetting Alex walked music the click of his heels kept time with a tune in his mind he glanced into a lighted café window inside were people sipping coffee men...

... 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...

...Chika Okeke Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 of fantastic forms, a world of humanoids, birds, reptiles. She decorative quality of the paintings. Predictably each com• seemed to have tried and indeed succeeded in freezing, even posite picture has...

...Joanna Grabski Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 TRACES AND ECHOES Mixed Media Paintings of KALIDOU SY Joanna Grabski uring...

... Elaine Freeman (Thomas), renowned as the training ground for the Tuskegee who later became chair of the Art Department at Airmen, another government-­sponsored experi- the institute. Freeman’s father, who was paralyzed, ment, and served as a bastion of higher education painted with his toes. Alonzo...

... Publications Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist Note known for her work in sculpture, collage-painting, video, installation, and performance. 1 Audre Lord, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, in Sister Outsider (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), 41. Mutu Nka 147 ...

...Nicholas Miller This article examines AfriCOBRA cofounder Jeff Donaldson’s painting Ala Shango (1969) in relation to the 1968 Chicago riots and the militaristic and Pan-Africanist rhetoric of the Black Nationalist movement. Specifically, I discuss the artist’s appropriation and incorporation...

... (painting) student in the Michaelis School of Fine Art, culture. His work challenges the Euro-American Cape Town. Spring/Summer 2001 Nka .61 ...

... wants, as she writes on one of her tion for the future. . . . The future works of Afri­ paintings, to “take the past and the present and COBRA became more powerful and more accessi- make the new image.” She records her concepts in ble as we started creating silk-­screen poster prints, Pops...

...- Journal of Contemporary African Art • Spring/Summer 1995 Toyce Anderson, Flashback, 1994 (Xeroxes on paper on board). Collection of the artist. Courtesy June Kelly Gallery, NYC. ent media: painting, drawing...

... landscap e of th e fam ily wine farm, 1976, aged twenty-three, to engage in fur ther a place fraught with its ow n conflicts:"Africa strug• study in Holland. I The re she enco untered paint • gles with nature. Droughts and floods and ances• ing in the real, instead of th rough reproduc tion, to rs...