...Helen Jennings In the last decade, a new generation of designers in Africa and the wider diaspora has started to rise through the fashion industry’s ranks. These talents are riding the wider wave of global interest in Africa’s cultural, economic, and technological ascension and are also taking...

... of Contemporary African Art Africa might have been if Africans themselves had decided to take Glory," New York Times. 27 June 2001. charge of their destiny." Earlier in the interview Ebouaney Riding, Alan. " Lumumba: In a Mirror on Africa, a Hero Unfairly...

... and penetrated by the eye. Western and African culture. Twenty-four watercolors, each In addition to the Pin-up Series are Mutu's three large-scale roughly the dimensions of a fashion magazine, are arranged on collages entitled Soul on a Peg-Leg (2001), Riding with Death...

... it. Not only did he choose to nale in Senegal. Invoking the notion of world of the biennale with his work undermine the biennale's premise of the perfect lover and the magic entitled, Take a Cab and Go for a Ride. "African-ness" by collaborating with moment, when one...

.... That was her, her credo. You know? And that's what I followed! So you had to have The late St. Clair Bourne (1943-2007) was a film this confidence. I had the same confidence riding a maker, producer, director, and writer who lived and horse when I was a kid on my father's little farm, you worked...

... whom many African filmmakers are walking, and riding alongside or in front of judged. Mambety's visual metaphors offer Elizabeth Mermin is a graduate student in anthology and Anta and Mory. As the couple ride through moments of social critique as powerful as any...

...• believe that Rhode is possibly playacting Getaway, 2000, Live performance. Cape tiation rite in which older students urged his favorite basketball stars and playing Town Observatory, Courtesy the artist younger ones to "ride" the drawing of a out fantasies...

...• newspapers. rounded by historic and modern buildings that serve to anchor ^ Sharon F. Patton. Vincent D. Smith Riding on a Blue Note: Monoprints and Harlem's cultural and economic life. He also received an important Works on Paper on Jazz Themes (New York: Henry Street Settlement...

..., to one or other destination near negative comment in the pictures themselves, but simply by refusing Pretoria was obviously symbolic. Eoually, the paraphernalia of to perpetuate the stereotype of fascist glamour. trekking, from laagers to horse-riding, was ritualized over...

... the Indeed, on the cab ride to my hotel, a radio com- mentator giddily speculated on the potential for a lesser-­known components of Sun Ra’s creative prac- “new New Orleans” to create profitable opportuni- tice led me to think about doing work in Chicago. ties for the display, packaging...

... of the modern world that must be increasing globalization are enveloped gallery contains figures of a man, understood in a global sense rather in the Cooper-Hewitt family. Shonibare woman, and child riding antique unicy- than in an essentialist vacuum...

... (for some reason), that one has nothing elbows and that endless truck ride? Perhaps Greenheads sim• against blacks, one is not racist, hopefully we might accept ply throws our interpretive tools back at us, our own deter• that our so-called Western Panopticon of news cameras and mined...

... half of the nineteenth century; geo- that asks us to ride the crosscurrents between words graphically, he entered the compact space that he and images in an aesthetic experience for which calls simply “New England” (4.37.2; 185). Derek Walcott offers a precedent. In tracing the arc...

... that I was a flaneur cism and brutality of man. impersonal banality and alien• dition. taken on a ride...

... children. Renowned enter- taken for a ride in a Piper airplane flown by Charles 6 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring 2012 List of artists who exhibited at the Brockman Gallery or participated in Brockman Production programs. Courtesy Brockman Gallery Archive...

...• States older Black artists like Ofili's detractors in England, also de• cerned with finding ways to prove that Ofili's work had revived British ride Walker's work as being "just what white people want". However, painting. More sensationalist reporters couldn't stop talking about...

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... tries her hand at multiple lives of city women. Works such do not feel afraid of my saints. I revere different media. In addition to being a as Free Ride (1991) or Modem Lovers them but I am not afraid of them. That is writer and a painter, Atnafu is also...