...Eddie Chambers Cherise Smith’s book Enacting Others brings together a disparate group of artists who “have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed.” Smith delivers a particularly engaging study because questions of identity...

... his early involvement in the Civil a group exhibition of Jacob Lawrence, Benny Andrews, Romare Rights movement. It was in 1952, while he was working for the Post Bearden, and Vincent Smith would be of interest, for" both their Office, that a friend invited him alongto visit the Cezanne...

...Megan Kincaid; Summer Sloane-Britt This article is an expanded version of a catalogue essay written for the 2021 exhibition Cauleen Smith , H-E-L-L-O: To Do All At Once , Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The event was the first online exhibition of the series, due...

...Terry Smith Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 THE 8TH Armando Marino, La patera, 2003, (something like: feet-vehicle). Car chassis, plaster, poliester, wood...

...Terry Smith The exhibition William Kentridge: Five Themes is the first full-scale Kentridge survey to tour the United States and Europe. Featuring more than 120 animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, and books, it began in March 2009 and ends at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam...

...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...

...Kathryn Smith Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 pleasure, and social criticism—in side, and inventiveness, chutz...

...Cauleen Smith From “Black Collectivities: A Conference,” held May 3–4, 2013, at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator. This article combines remarks and images offered at the conference...

... about the transnational, global nature and Smith College. of their political projects, despite the Image courtesy Indiana University Press distances separating them in time and Notes space...

... between the constants that afford GASP Arts in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her upcoming me stability and the tensions that stimulate production. solo show, Sugar, opens at Smith College Museum in the Family, friends, loved ones, home, travel, and community fall of 2010. Her work can also be seen...

... to creativity in art and literature. Salah M. Hassan is the Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernitie, and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He is currently serving as director of the Africa...

...Shawn Michelle Smith Copyright © 2006 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2006 Afterimages: 12:14 a.m., Nov. 8, 2003. SPC ENGLAND points to the penis of one of the detainees...

...Cherise Smith Jordana Moore Saggese’s Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art is a monographic study of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who experienced a near meteoric rise and fall. In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention...

... a sense of a circular, rather than unidirectional, movement. Like the old movement of Jah people, the new movement of the Afropolitans is not a one-way affair. Salah M. Hassan is the Goldwin Smith Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities, and professor of African and African...

... and second-line parades, military marches and marching bands, funeral processions and civil rights movement demonstrations for historical antecedents and to Lorraine O’Grady and Shani Peters (three decades apart from each other), Cauleen Smith, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Sol Sax, and Rashaad Newsome...

...Cherise Smith In this article the author questions Carrie Mae Weems’s use of conceptualist and appropriative strategies to conjure the persistent unresolved feelings that result from the historical and continued trauma of black people. Weems’s series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995...

...Shawn Michelle Smith This article considers Augustus Washington’s mid-nineteenth-century Liberian daguerreotypes as propositions about a new nation. It suggests that Washington understood the power of his images as propaganda for viewers in the United States and also as documents that registered...

... use of lynching as a metaphor for emerged with even greater force—atavistic, terrible, contemporary political drama. Similarly, he cites the yet bringing the shock of the familiar, of what we had cases of Susan Smith and Charles Stuart, who been dreading to see. As Sontag says...

... Cauleen Smith, Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band, Rich South High School, Garfield, Green Line Stop, Chicago, March 4, 2013 Huey Copeland and Naomi Beckwith Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34 • Spring 2014 4 • Nka...

... Gardner Smith, and the US art historian Jerome Mellquist.2 Plaiton Suspendu (1958), 6 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 51 November 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10127111 © 2022 by Nka Publications Harold Cousins, Plaiton Suspendu (Hanging Plaiton), 1958. Welded steel and brass, 59 x 17 x 11 in. ©...