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Curating at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 142–145.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Isaac Julien © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 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...
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Surviving the Seventeenth Century: Graeme Mortimer Evelyn’s Call and Responses: The Odyssey of the Moor
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 84–91.
Published: 01 November 2014
...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...
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El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 142–145.
Published: 01 May 2011
...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...
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Fashioning Modernity: Dressing the Body in Ethiopian Portraiture
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 56–67.
Published: 01 June 2017
... 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...
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Brevity is the Soul of Wit: Amir Nour, Between Minimalism and Africanism
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 84–107.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 8–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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Bust Brawl: The Battle over a Black Bronze Prince
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 174–180.
Published: 01 November 2016
... 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...
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The Clothes Make the Man: Portraits of Emperor Haile Selassie
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 108–117.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 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...
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Frank Bowling’s White Paintings
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 34–47.
Published: 01 November 2019
... 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...
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Cultivating History: Amina Mansour: A Work in Progress
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 62–65.
Published: 01 May 2001
... 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...
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Lubaina Himid: Do You Want An Easy Life?
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in theatre design at Wimbledon College of Arts. In context, this makes perfect sense. Some of Himid s earliest designs were for the notable restaurant and bar, Tuttons in Covent Garden in proximity of the Royal Opera House, the Theatre Royal, and the Linbury Theatre. After graduation, the prospect...
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A Picture’s Worth: Toward Theorizing a Black/Queer Gaze in the Internet “Pornutopia”
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 96–100.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., 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...
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Surrealism and Photography in Egypt
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 144–162.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... 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 local standards of technical and artistic excellence. Once...
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Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 100–111.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 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...
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Chris Ofili
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 141.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and form, the secular and sacred, image 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...
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The Local and Beyond: Francis Nnaggenda's Sculptural Innovations
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Nka (2003) 2003 (18): 76–79.
Published: 01 May 2003
...•
onates with the traditional handling of bark-
cloth in two ways. First, the sheets tightly wrap
the figure as bark-cloth wraps a royal...
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Adding Poetry to Politics
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 154–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
...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...
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Black Transnational Resistance: Rashaad Newsome’s Collages
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 72–84.
Published: 01 November 2022
... 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...
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Yaw Owusu: In the Cool of Day
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 152–157.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and was bewildered to learn that the coins had not been produced in Ghana but rather by the Royal Canadian Mint, an offshoot of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom, Ghana s former colonial power. Owusu s inquiries were further broadened by African literature, particularly by the writings of Nigerian novelist...
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SOKARI DOUGLAS CAMP: SPIRITS IN STEEL: THE ART OF THE KALABARI MASQUERADE
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Nka (1998) 1998 (9): 67.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., 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...
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