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... Exposition Coloniale Internationale as a great colonial minstrel show—an artificial spectacle of blackness constructed for the white gaze. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 Palmer Hayden Exposition Coloniale Internationale African Americans in Paris visual satire Harlem Renaissance...

...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 SHOWS Moderated by Chika Okeke-Agulu with an introduction by Salah M. Hassan [H]istoriography, including art historiography, is only possible if a few events are selected from the chaos...

... photographer who worked with Okwui on The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life (Prestel, 2013). South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky, based in Johannesburg, showed work in Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography (Steidl, 2006...

... for your thesis exhibition and at the present show at and the piece in question got my attention. the NMAAA [National Museum of African American Art]. I find it quite compelling, since the image of the hero as black Cullen’s work has an inner energy and raw...

...- artists from the metropolitan area, stages the First munity artists. Annual Out-Door Art Show on 7th Avenue from Abdullah Aziz and Ademola Olugebefola move 127th Street to 135th Street in August, as well as exhi- to Harlem and open studios in the same building on bitions in and around Harlem...

...Joy L. Bivins Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair was a costume exhibition that debuted at the Chicago History Museum in March 2013. The project explored and examined the history and impact of Ebony Fashion Fair, a traveling fashion show produced by Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Company...

.... It brings new archival family photographs and fieldwork to discuss a modern Sudan that is curiously absent from the scholarship of both African and Islamic architecture in order to write the global history of modernism in higher resolution. It shows that the verandah was a British colonial architectural...

...” shows, a race-based exhibition format that Cahan asserts maintains hierarchical divisions in museums. Chapter 1 traces the history of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the competing ideologies that led from its transition as an interracial site of collaboration to a space of local and black leadership...

...NJ Hynes This review examines Contested Terrains , an innovative show that presents the work of four “emerging” artists: Adolphus Opara, Michael MacGarry, Kader Attia, and Sammy Baloji. The exhibition plays with our notions of past and present, fracturing our sense of the contemporary...

... of the exhibition as an opera in four acts about our world now, in the past, and in the future. Kasbah is an installation of a shantytown made with sheet iron and plastic, showing the town from above: the roofs spread over a considerable area, but always on the ground, so that visitors can walk over them. Another...

... it was derailed by the 1952 Officer’s Revolution and, later, pressed into the service of the state. Despite the lack of access to the photographic record of works produced for or around Art and Liberty exhibitions, the author contributes contextual details for both those shows and the practice of photography...

... of displacement, by showing photographic representation of Ethiopian modernity structured around Muluneh’s invocation of her personal history and reference to Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups. For the purpose of clarifying the term “modern,” this assignation refers to the demarcation of time in Ethiopia’s history...

...Rihab Kassatly Bagnole This essay presents a context for and appreciation of the works of Ethiopian artist Kebedech Tekleab in the exhibition Blue and Gray: This Era of Exile . Examining not only the author’s personal feelings and admiration for the works, the discussion shows how the selections...

... sketches? Relating Twombly’s studies to his own writings and retrospective commentaries, this article aims to show that Twombly’s attraction to African art corresponds to his exploration of the materiality of things, leading toward modes of mark making that would prove significant for his future production...

..., from April 16 to August 14, 2016. The show was awarded German exhibition of the year by the International Association of Art Critics. Attia, the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize, continues his long-running exploration of the construct of repair . This theoretical framework...

...-conceived method artists invited for brief visits can show a lack of commitment, resulting in intellectual superficiality and poor execution. The most resonant on-site creation belonged to Jean Katambayi, whose sculpture was initiated as part of an experiment to commission works in advance, permitting time...

... of Negro Arts (Dakar, Senegal, 1966), the International Meeting of Sculptors (Mexico City, 1968), and the Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969). The transnational relationships and growing solidarity with Third Worldism and Pan-Africanism evident in the exhibition history of the 1960s show the ways...

... and distributed throughout the Francophone world), I show that popular print facilitated the emergence of global black consciousness by showcasing figures of literal mobility such as women working in sports and transportation sectors. The magazine’s format celebrated individual achievement and featured short...

.... Crawford shows how unexpected moves to abstraction during the 1960s and ’70s black freedom struggles anticipated contemporary theories and practices of the diaspora. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 strategic abstraction Black diaspora Dionne Brand Hoyt Fuller...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu In this conversation artist Bill Gaskins discusses his recent work The Cadillac Chronicles, which consists of photographic diptychs showing black men and their Cadillacs. Topics covered include how Gaskins came to the work; its reception, with an emphasis on how racial politics...