... as suspect. I argue that this sign is not only experienced as everyday anti-blackness but is in fact precisely that: anti-black. Not only does the sign reinforce stigmatizing representations of people racialized as black (thus “b” in lowercase), such visual imagery, guised as public art, also negates any...

...• short, living in public. His com• pah and a different sort of trans• munities comprise his family, gression on the other. both biological and social, in I should...

... tradition and a critique of mainstream performance art history, this article starts in Harlem before taking the reader on a sweeping journey that calls at Chicago and Houston and ends in New Orleans. A cursory introduction to African diasporic public ceremonial culture, the article looks to carnival...

... the collective in relationship to collections. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34 • Spring 2014 74 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2415222  © 2014 by Nka Publications The ARTIST CORPORATION...

... States, the decisive anticolonial Battle of Adwa in Ethiopia, and the momentary promise of decolonization at the end of World War I. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Ethiopia Egypt pan-Africanism historical reclamation...

... the artist and Free Agent Media Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 142 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3641788 © 2016 by Nka Publications ow do you see blackness? What does it look most fetishized black women in European history...

... us to carefully sidestep some of the misconceptions about Journal of Contemporary African Art • 36 • May 2015 88 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2914350  © 2015 by Nka Publications Kader Attia, Indépendance Tchao, 2014. Installation view at Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, 2014...

..., "The Unkindness of Strangers," Transition. No 61(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.) p. 137. 2 Ohi Oguibe, "Imagined Homes, Imagined Loyalties, or the Uncertainty of Geographies," in Interzones, a publication by Octavio Zaya & Anders Michelsen for an exhibition of the same name. (Copenhagen...

... Gallery, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 6 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-002  © 2010 by Nka Publications A Fairy Tale T. J. Demos visually sumptuous film of thirty...

... and water. Its rich red In contrast, Chilean-born artist Al - song resonates differently, revealing its in our sense of who we are, despite its justices at issue in Barrada’s film re - cisco Art Institute. His publications in - contrasts with the green of the shrubs fredo Jaar’s digital...

... Basie’s, Club Lenox and 5th Avenues at 125th Street, featuring Baron, and the New Lafayette Theatre. The house live cultural entertainment. Entity becomes model opens to the public in fall of 1967. for nationwide visitation by cultural leaders and The House of Umoja is founded by Ademola...

...  © 2014 by Nka Publications Reading the Lumpenproletariat Zoe Leonard’s Kampala Photographs Charity Scribner n a key scene in Mary Okurut’s 1998 novel The taxi becomes an “allegorical vehicle” for a society...

... through February 23, 2014. a fundamental starting point for this broad and Linked exhibitions opened in the summer of 2013: concept-­driven project. The exhibition and accom- one at the National Museum of Natural History panying publication (Monacelli Press) focus on examining Mali’s earthen...

... 32 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2827976  © 2014 by Nka Publications John Outterbridge, Rag and Bag Idiom I, 2012. Mixed media, 14.5 x 15.75 x 3.5 in. Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York...

... paintings, and public installations co-opt the linguistic forms and pictorial metaphors of poster-strewn urban sidewalks. Deriving from the noble visions of John Muafangejo’s politically charged linocuts, Platter’s satirical drawings make textual references to familiar street advertisements bearing...

... returned to three-­dimensional we can celebrate the writing together.”34 The idea sculpture in a series of monumental Amharic let- of public art — and of inviting local art students ters welded out of metal, a work still in progress as to participate in the planning and construction of this essay...

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