...Isaac Julien Curating at the My core artistic premise and point of departure to Royal Academy curate the first two galleries of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition 2020 was to 2020 pay homage to my friend, the late, great curator, writer, and poet, Okwui Enwezor...

...NJ Hynes Bust of a Moor , by John Van Nost, is one of the oldest works to be continuously held by the Royal Collection at Kensington Palace in London. Commissioned around 1689, its gleaming layers of colored marble surprise and delight with their careful detail and blatant bling. But the Moor’s...

... by the queen and the extension of membership in the Royal Academy to a handful. The article draws attention to the ways in which major London galleries such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Serpentine, and the Whitechapel have, over the course of the past two decades, hosted the first main-space solo...

... center is explored in this article through the lens of portraiture and fashion. Examining the unique social presence of the Ethiopian royal family in the media, both at home and abroad, this article presents an analysis of the fashionably dressed bodies of Emperor Haile Selassie and his children within...

... in Shendi, an ancient city on the bank of the Nile River, and enrolled as a student at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum in the mid-1950s. From the late 1950s to mid-1960s he trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art in London, later earning his PhD in African art...

...Terry Smith In his wall hangings of sewn-together tops from alcohol bottles and other detritus, most of them made since 2002, El Anatsui has accomplished one of the very few genuine breakthroughs in contemporary art anywhere in the world today. This exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto...

... at the upcoming it is habited. Th e mask, however, is good and a good 1880 Royal Academy exhibition. If Th rop yielded bust might be made from it.”8 the cast to Williamson, he contended, “it would For the six months that followed, Ransome’s destroy the value of his work.”12 ostensibly...

... and social agendas. Even in the field of Western fashion his- tory, the lavish gowns and uniforms that adorned the bodies of kings and queens have often been dis- cussed only as “costumes,” outfits that separated the royal body from that of the general population. The clothing of those in power has...

... Paintings.2 The exhibi- tion followed the year after the Royal Academy of Arts elected Bowling a Royal Academician in May 2005, the first black British artist to be given the ac- colade in its history. The politicization of color is hard to avoid in Bowling s work. Despite a long, well-established career...

... the Souvenir, the Collection, Duke University Press, Durham and It might be interesting to read Mansour's re-workings of nos• London, 1993. talgia as a strangely, quiet crisis—repeating a longing to iden• 3 Recent exhibitions of royal portraiture in photography in Cairo (at tify with a discredited...

..., and Allen Nka • 97 frame themselves and other black men for trans- either. . . . Don’t be confused: Racism doesn’t go better national erotic legibility. with a big dick, or a hot pussy, or a royal lineage.7 (My This engagement of “low” representations of emphasis) black male (sex...

..., and religious journals in Arabic, Greek, French, Italian, and English. The growth of Egypt s press was enhanced by the ability to reproduce images, which began at the turn of the nineteenth century. Photojournalism was born from the practice of court photography, portraits commissioned by royal patrons that set...

... Institution Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale. There Baloji 106 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 33 • Fall 2013 Sammy Baloji, Portrait #2: Femme Urua sur fond d’aquarelle de Dardenne (Luba Woman against Watercolor by Dardenne), from the series Congo Far West...

... and vision, myth and history, make Within Reach one of the most complete artistic projects ever undertaken in the his- tory of the Venice Biennale.1 More recently, artist Isaac Julien curated a section of the 2020 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, which paid homage to Okwui, and invited...

...• onates with the traditional handling of bark- cloth in two ways. First, the sheets tightly wrap the figure as bark-cloth wraps a royal...

...Kendell Geers © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Adding Poetry to Politics Kendell Geers, Self-Portrait, 1995. Courtesy and © Kendell Geers Kendell Geers Africa95 opened on October 4, 1995, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, seven months and a few days after the First Johannesburg Biennale...

... steals the costumes and crown jewels of the Royal Court exhibition at the Museum of Fashion Silberstein Nka 77 Chokwe artist, female mask (Mwana Pwo or Pwewo), early twentieth century. Wood, fiber, and pigment, 25.4 x 19.7 x 22 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborn for the Linton Collection...

..., and, finally, the formance. However, she is interested protruding, cylindrical wood beams querade ensembles which focus on Royal College of Art, London. in the practice of honoring and pla• recall the artificial, prosthetic dress...

... organizations such as the Royal Anthropological Institute Pho• ublishers, 2000.254 pp...

... and tastemakers, In other words, they embodied the legacy of philanthropists and royals together in the same the beauty, elegance, and power of pre colonial room. The statuesque yet inexperienced Elizabeth Africa. For many Africans, their place among the quickly grabbed the attention of British fashion...