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... emanate from the icons as cosmic rays or halos. The harmony and unity in Gatson’s work empowers us to think of a brighter future, one that accepts and scrutinizes the past. Vigorous power lines—the meeting of two forces opposed to each other by their very nature, formally and conceptually—guide the viewer...

...Julia Elizabeth Neal Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power is a meticulous case study into an embattled New York art establishment, which black artists critiqued as perpetuating racist, exclusionist collecting and exhibition practices during the 1960s...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019150 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917204 © 2019 by Nka Publications SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER BROOKLYN MUSEUM SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 FEBRUARY 3, 2019 In recent decades, exhibition program...

... unstable, held in place ate presence of the image. In some reading “Yes Boss—WP ,” becomes al - S POWER PLAY and reinforced by the institutions of pieces, Langa lets the quiet...

... Power era by redeploying them in experimental film and digital formats. Often highly didactic and formulaic in their original form, the Black Panther Party’s imagery of guns, fists, and men in militarized formations contested prevailing notions of race, power, and masculinity. Similarly, groups like...

...Holiday Powers This paper proposes a new reading of Moroccan abstract painter Jilali Gharbaoui through the lens of decolonization. Gharbaoui fits uncomfortably into the narrative of modernism in Morocco. Unlike other painters, interested in direct connections between their shapes or abstractions...

...Holiday Powers “Those Who Will Join Us” reviews Bouchra Khalili’s multimedia installation The Circle (2023) in the context of Sharjah Biennial 15. The Circle was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and won one of the biennial prizes, and suggests larger questions about what it means...

...Holiday Powers Occurring every two years, the Venice Biennale remains a key node for contemporary art. In Venice, in addition to a main exhibition, national pavilions are located primarily between the two main biennale sites, the Giardini and the Arsenale, and collateral events are scattered across...

...Holiday Powers The artists of the Casablanca Ecole des Beaux-Art under the directorship of Farid Belkahia, through their own personal practice as well as their pedagogy, tried to root the aesthetics of international modernism in a distinctly Moroccan idiom by using local referents. Following...

...Holiday Powers This article looks at French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s artwork and her role at the Cinémathèque de Tanger (CdT) in response to the mutating cosmopolitanisms of contemporary Tangier, Morocco. The article focuses on her projects A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project , Iris...

...Holiday Powers This article reviews Katarzyna Pieprzak’s book Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Post-colonial Morocco (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). The book covers the discursive usage of claims of modernity in Morocco from 1912, the beginning of the French Protectorate, up...

... with an impeccably curated presentation of politically engaged artworks that made a powerful impact visually, sonically, and conceptually. His sustained reflection on the state of the world and sharp critique of how contemporaneity is shaped and influenced by colonial history and lingering colonial power structures...

... Dhabi; with Diawara she has co-authored texts on Goya, Glissant, and contemporary art (Cahiers d Art, Paris); Glissant, André Breton and the new sacred (Arts & Cultures, Barbier Mueller, Geneva), and an article on Paulo Nazareth (The Power Plant, Toronto). Notes This text was originally commissioned...

... and familiarity of an artist who was close to Enwezor. Equally powerful was Isaac Julien s five-screen installation Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) (2022), which transported viewers into the double entendre of a critical space that featured a curatorial rearrangement (both physically and conceptually...

... of how a formal aes - leged collective creativity and solidarity. Both Don - plinary artists ’ group , the Organization of Black based in political or social power. Douglas asserts thetic articulates political and social meaning. In aldson and Abrams were instrumental in founding American...

..., commerce, culture, and power rela- were compounded by the oft-­noted gap between the tionships.”6 Harrell sees phantasms as primordial formulation of decisions in meetings and their effec- sources of power and knowledge: tive implementation on the ground. 42 • Nka Journal of Contemporary...

...). One radically change how compelled people feel to come of the men is fully clothed, his face obscured. The to a museum. Making a connection with another other is a naked black man with scars on his back, human being is one of the most powerful and seemingly working on the sculpture...

... Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey artist gender race power WANGECHI MUTU A Fantastic Journey Trevor Schoonmaker Journal of Contemporary African...