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...dele jegede Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 AN INSIDE STORY wo authoritative wood sculptures, each situated about 30 is ambitious. But its is an ambition that feeds on the existing fad yards apart, admit the visitor...

... this AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY BASQUI AT artist and so did his Afro-Puerto MIRAMAX FILMS Rican mother. In the escape...

...Selene Wendt The interconnectivity of seemingly disconnected situations and stories throughout the 56th International Art Exhibition All the World’s Futures (2015), curated by Okwui Enwezor and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, contributes to an exhibition that is simultaneously fragmented...

... Greaves), a black story editor (Lou American activists meet the IRA in Northern Ire - making. Potter) and we became the producers.” 2 land. The film examines parallels between North - Saint was born in Harlem in 1943 to Carribbean...

..., and installation do not fully cap- tive, he has organized such exhibitions as An Inside ture the formal presence or our experience of his metallic works. Story: African Art of Our Time (1995) and Pascale This suggests that his works go far beyond the existing framework Marthine Tayou: Ni Primitif, Ni...

... as the Battle of Versailles but was officially called Le Grand Divertissement at Versailles. As I learned more, I thought this story would make a great documentary—high...

... skillfully navigates the perspective of the past and its remnants in the interpretation of the present, the visual metaphors connect personally with the spectator. Seemingly faint voices transpire from individual panels, and sounds communicate with the viewer through particular stories. Likewise, impressions...

... while incorporating Western themes implies a precontemporary creation, an egalitarian existence in a story from which the black body is painfully absent. When a work of art depicts a figure (mythical, biblical, allegorical) the narrative is identified with the help of pictorial codes. Eros would...

... the fact that if we abstract one of these binaries from the other, we end up with stereotypical stories that do not take us far in understanding our own condition. Yet she also teaches us that the subject’s story never belongs to him or her alone: what we face on the outside turns out to be as important...

...Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins The media are awash in tales of young entrepreneurs recounting their stories of how social media helped them develop and grow their businesses. This is a different type of story void of those tools, the entrepreneur classes, and self-help articles. This essay considers...

... to the cultural festivals but also appealed to Africans with less overt Pan-Africanist political goals, for whom imagining mobility was central to a modern habitus. That story of modern mobility was couched as a transnational one. It mattered that Senegalese, Gabonese, and Ivorian readers followed each others...

...Romi Crawford Romi Crawford explores the affective bonds that ensue from scenes of collective black consciousness. She launches her article on the premise that each event has unique and complicated pre-stories that are harder to get to, but awareness of which helps in better understanding both...

... ability to layer multiple “stories” by evincing a temporal, spatial, and kinetic aesthetic in his visual work; on his choice of and approach to his materials; and on the changes in his oeuvre over the years: from painting and mixed media to monumental steel sculptures of Amharic letters, constructed...

...NJ Hynes Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist , the Tate Modern’s first retrospective of a modernist artist from the African continent, marks both an institutional acknowledgment that the story of modernism in art is not limited to North America and Europe and a commitment to acquisitions...

... Araeen’s 1989 exhibition The Other Story , the first major attempt to create a broad black British art history, and several other not dissimilar, exhibitions. The article also considers what changes to the fortunes of a small number of black British artists might be deduced from the awarding of honors...

... are paralleled with an account of the protests on the street and events that were unfolding at the time. Describing the environment of censorship and strategies used by the government to block dissent, the author provides stories of how different groups who were part of the revolution retaliated. The article can...

...Yasmine Espert Pressure , the first feature film by a black British director, was the center of praise and critique at the time of its release. Completed in 1974, it narrates a coming-of-age story about a young man who discovers the complexity of Black Power activism in London. This article...

... painters and sculptors, and published diverse stories, articles, and poems of his own. A communist at heart, he denounced Farouk’s regime, Hitler’s Nazism, and Stalin’s dictatorship. After openly criticizing Nasser’s authoritarianism, he was forced to leave Egypt in 1962, finally settling in Paris, where...