...Michael Westfall This essay reviews Yinka Shonibare MBE’s exhibition Addio del passato , exploring themes of decay, dissipation, and death as expressed through the historical figure of Lord Nelson. Shonibare’s exhibition casts Nelson as a hapless metonym for the colonial urge, suggesting that both...

...Dan Cameron which is imposed upon the individ• YINKA SHONIBARE ual from the outside, and a histor• ical projection, created to deflect...

...Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 The sculptures have a quiet, mocks essentialist notions of the dainty female figure is clad Yinka Shonibare...

...Andrea Frohne Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 lecting, colonialism, and global YINKA SHONIBARE exchange. For instance, the skin...

...Amanda Gilvin Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 YINKA SHONIBARE GARDEN OF LOVE Musee du Quai Branly Paris, France April 2 - July 8, 2007 A tail transparent wall separates the gardens of the Musee du...

...Jennie Hirsh This review examines the midcareer retrospective Yinka Shonibare MBE in the context of its third and final venue, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. The survey featured examples of the artist’s familiar interests—the complex relationship between colonial...

...Yinka Shonibare, CBE © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Dandies in Solidarity Yinka Shonibare CBE Yinka Shonibare CBE, Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 11.00 hours, 1998. Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 14.00 hours, 1998. Included in the exhibition Included in the exhibition Mirror s Edge, Bildmuseet...

... British artist Yinka Shonibare, this essay suggests that Wilde’s caricature as a black(face) minstrel dandy on his visit to America in the 1880s was both a compliment and an insult. Wilde as black dandy, and/or the black dandy in association with Wilde, attempted to associate the aesthete with an apish...

... Fall /Winter 2002 Nka-109 The sculptures have a quiet, mocks essentialist notions of the dainty female figure is clad Yinka Shonibare though commanding resonance blackness...

..., António Ole, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, and Pascale Marthine Tayou. The artists’ work engaged visitors with a range of difficult issues, including the role that Germany and the city of Berlin played in the colonization of Africa. The exhibit also acknowledged and explored the complex postcolonial relationship...

... is confident, hip, and Two such works from the show are Jane Alexan- beautiful. These photographs offer nothing less than der s Butcher Boys (1985 86) and Yinka Shonibare s a radical reimagining of the African figure to view- 100 Years (2000), which link to Africa s liberation ers beyond the continent...

... Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Scramble for Africa, 2003. © Courtesy the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Image provided...

... And home what's been found I'm not stopping —Bjork, "Hunter," 1997 Laurie Ann Farrell 38* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000-2003. Fourteen figures...

... of an equally close and fruitful reading. Apart from representing an American attention that would in time assume limited, but nevertheless important, academic di- mensions, Transforming the Crown had the vision and presence of mind to include in its roster Yinka Shonibare, who was already on his way to taking...

... is the quin• ture arises their medium of choice: the black body tessential purveyor of such art in this era of hyper- as commodity. Much like the work of artists Yinka capitalism. Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Renee Cox, Kerry James Yale graduate Kehinde...

... into a hearty and good-­natured laugh. In this Yinka Shonibare’s series Diary of a Victorian Dandy series we see a white man move through the streets (1998). In these photographs Shonibare re-­creates of Awassa, Ethiopia. The photographs are banal and a succession of early European bourgeois...

... of Summer Exhibition 2020 (October 6, 2020 January 3, 2021) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing Yinka Shonibare, Air Kid (Girl). Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, globe, brass, steel baseplate, umbrella. Back right: Oscar Murillo, Manifestation, 2019. Oil, oil stick, cotton...

... Shonibare’s elaborate tableaus tellingly incorporate Dutch-wax fabric, which is commonly accepted as African despite originally coming about as a result of colonial trade routes between Europe and Asia. And Wangechi Mutu’s Daniele Tamagni, Playboys of Bacongo, 2012. Lambda C...

..., a Ghariokwu, who made the art• would include Shonibare's Lady that), rather than an argument virtuoso saxophonist, a maverick work for several of his album Na Master (2002-03), featuring for or demonstration of Fela's social critic...