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...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FAITH RINGGOLD: AMERICAN PEOPLE THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 17 JUNE 5, 2022 Among my most memorable art exp­ er­ iences was visiting the New Museum s exhibition Dancing at the Louvre: Faith...

... by Nka Publications Pale Reflections and Fables of Life George Osodi’s “Real People” of the Niger Delta Frank A. O. Ugiomoh Ugiomoh Nka • 29 eorge Osodi’s photographs embody...

...Eddie Chambers This text explores some of the ways in which press photographs have visualized key episodes of rioting involving Black people in the English cities of London and Birmingham. These range from the Notting Hill riots of 1958 through the riots that took place in Birmingham, Brixton...

.... Creating multilayered and multireferential bodies of work in which she not only questions problematic representations of “Africa and its peoples” but also rejects the centuries-long stranglehold of “poisonous, disrespectful, and skewed images of black people,” Walker fuses personal autobiography, family...

...Ngaire Blankenberg When it comes to representing and collecting images and stories of black people, most museums have a long way to go. But while the collection and the exhibitions are important ways to demonstrate the presence of black people in art, history, and science, is this enough? Black...

... by Nka Publications From the Center From Asia to Africa Tretchikoff, the People’s Painter Okechukwu Nwafor nitially a Russian, Vladimir Griegorovich Tret- Born in Petropavlovsk, Russia, on December 13, chikoff (1913 – 2006) came to South...

... photographers in the art world, he worked with master artists, intellectuals, and photographers. Also in 1968, a group of black men—plus one woman— formed Essence Communications Inc. A momentous triangulation of the women’s liberation movement, the cultural nationalism of African American people in the United...

... of extraordinary incidents in the life of the photograph and its reception. These incidents reveal how photographic representations of expressive black culture and people are often received and interpreted by viewers across the lines of race and class in problematic ways. The essay also connects the reception...

..., provides an unprecedented historical ( e Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant trajectory of the black dandy from his eighteenth- People, commonly abbreviated La SAPE) in their century origins to his twenty- rst-century hip-hop natural state, as opposed to “staging” poses, as did o spring. Within...

...Cherise Smith In this article the author questions Carrie Mae Weems’s use of conceptualist and appropriative strategies to conjure the persistent unresolved feelings that result from the historical and continued trauma of black people. Weems’s series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995...

... to inhabit a space that honors their presence and place in and through culture and time allows me to redefine not only how black people have been conditioned to exist, but also how black people have been conditioned to reflect upon themselves. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016...

...Lucy H. Partman African American artist Norman Lewis (1909–79) was known to be a complex conversant in command of many verbal and visual idioms. His art reveals an interest in inter- and intrapersonal interactions. Lewis studied how people conversed, the way individuals operated in Groups...

..., conferences, exhibitions, and performances, uniting people and art forms and working beyond barriers. For two full weekends the event hosted numerous concerts by renowned stars such as Vieux Farka Touré, Sékouba Bambino, Abdoulaye Diabaté, Amadou and Mariam, Fousco and Djènèba, Master Soumy, Tab B., Calibre...

... to refuse the kind of willful forgetting and violent obfuscating that insists upon rendering invisible or fungible Black people who have vitalized communities like Braddock for generations. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 LaToya Ruby Frazier Grandma Ruby documentary...

... Movement, Himid is renowned for her narrative paintings, which interrogate historical representations of Black people’s creativity—from the eighteenth century to the present day. Painted canvasses, cut-out figures, drawers, and found carts find home in exhibitions that reveal the artist’s engagement...

... 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...

... to protect the Arctic landscape, wildlife, and indigenous peoples from unchecked industrialization but also about territorial expansion and the mining of natural resources. Moreover, this straightforward imperial rivalry for the Arctic resources that were once off-limits recalls earlier struggles for power...

... convey a more egalitarian exchange of puissance . Several modes of understanding puissance in relation to the paintings are considered: the artist’s power over whom she chooses to paint, as well as the composition of the figures; the exchange of power among the people she paints and their relationship...

... in Ballen’s photographs remain semiotically unclear, as do the arranged part-objects, people, and animals in the photographs. The French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva’s (and French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval’s) description of the Thing of melancholia as “a light without representation” provides a poetic...

... . . . Color that defines, identifies and directs . . . Coolade colors for coolade images for superreal people.” Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 AFRICOBRA MANIFESTO? “Ten in Search of a Nation” Jeff R. Donaldson...