... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...). 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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...Celeste-Marie Bernier Black British artist Barbara Walker works across multiple narrative series to create hard-hitting dramatic tableaux in which she does powerful justice to the psychological, physical, emotional, cultural, social, and imaginative realities of lives as lived by black women, men...

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

...Erin Dziedzic Everything Matters seeks to explore the positive reciprocal exchange of power relations suffusing the South African painter Deborah Poynton’s monumental canvases. Works from 2008 and 2009 were shown at Poynton’s first exhibition in the United States. Employing Gilles Deleuze’s (1925...

...Yasmine Espert Pressure , the first feature film by a black British director, was the center of praise and critique at the time of its release. Completed in 1974, it narrates a coming-of-age story about a young man who discovers the complexity of Black Power activism in London. This article...

... beginning with the Zemema Mesafint , or Era of Princes (ca. 1760– 1855), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of centralized imperial power that was later dissolved by the 1974 revolution. The article explores the consequences of state power and nationalism post-revolution in definitions of modernity...