... cultures of the United Kingdom in the 1980s. These were intellectual cultures put in place by the growth of immigrant and queer communities in Britain and by the rise of cultural studies via the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies. Perhaps no one was able to theorize those connections more pow- erfully...

... in the ethnographic studies of the Other. genders a new kind of exchange and set of relations, A decisive break from Breton s surrealist mandates in which the host (in this case the French state) is and manifestos, Documents was filled with odd and placed in a position to expel the parasite (Enwezor, incongruous...

...); the burning tow- in the United States, she examines the juxtaposition of ers on September 11, complete with a news ticker and “ancient” culture and contemporary technology. Barrow is the word Earlier, indicating that the footage isn’t live; the a destination for scientists studying global warming...

... by, and position ourselves within the narratives of the past.”2 The specifics of how and why this is the case are the subject of this special issue. Noliwe Rooks is the director of graduate studies and an associate professor in Africana studies at Cornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she...

.... One need only look at Freud’s 1918 study Totem and Taboo, tellingly subtitled Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, to see the limitations that Freud presents in imagining the psychic lives and Coco Fusco, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, 2004. Video, 31 min. cultural...

... as an inexhaustible pro- liferation of images of the world made better. This intergenerational striving replaces the elusive path to American financial success with the no place of utopia, suggesting that this no place is the only place like home. Christina Knight is an assistant professor of visual studies...

... was especially influential in the way his research for as an important intellectual. We thought our call for both curating and art history crossed seamlessly papers would be flooded with submissions, if indeed from African studies to contemporary art subjects other panels commemorating him did not create...

... use of textiles and engagement with feminist politics from the 1970s onward place her squarely within these discourses. Interesting, however, is to consider what brought her to celebrate and/or deconstruct race and gender as primary subjects of art. A foray into her early studies in London and travel...

... of separating “skin” from a biological schema in order to consider its ability to reflect and activate different states of racialized consciousness and corporeality. Through a study of Baker’s intricate and performative relations to various fashionable surfaces—from modern buildings to modern dress to her own...

...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...

... exhibition, the trel• power, and strict social codes. The Studies. lises were covered in ivy, the ground "artful naturalness" of the gardens out• beneath the mannequins lush with side was exposed as artifice, as a con• Notes grass...

... on the very bodies of individuals Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis the ploughs are often found priming and the possibility of liberation. Ababa University, and a Ph.D. candi• themselves in front of a mirror, in bat• Hence, Chance and Choice...

... to the point, they saw empowerment within institutions of higher learn- few advantages in these pungent threads of Wright’s ing. There Black Aesthetics played a role in validat- thought. ing black studies, beyond the limits of literature and The choices for many contemporaries of Black the humanities. I...

... and Archeology and African American Studies, director of the Program in African Studies, and director of the Africa World Initiative at Princeton University. 118 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 54 May 2024 Manan Ahmed, Marwa Elshakry, and Steven Pierce, editors Comparative Studies of South Asia...

... throughout this coming-of-age story. Yasmine Espert is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective. Notes I would like to thank the Association for Art...

... consequences of the Second World War and its East African aftermaths. Several projects by the United Kingdom-born artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (b. Glasgow, 1976) will be considered. The first is a set of works that includes the 2012 photographic in- stallation The Margaret Trowell School of Art (Study Emma...

... reach, and what will it take to nally get there? Hannah Sage Kay is a writer from New York, currently undertaking graduate study in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Notes 1 Massimiliano Gioni, Many Are Called, in Jordan Casteel: Within Reach...

... translated his models into critical formats and inventive ways of producing social and political knowledge, carefully adjusted to local contexts and needs.1 The aim of this study is to trace the influential postcolonial platforms model that Enwezor con- ceptualized for Documenta11 to a small but inter...

... to publishing a study, in two parts, with the Qatari magazine Al-Doha, during the editorship of Ragaa al-Naqqash. The first part was titled Qissat al-Sirialiyya fi-l-Watan al-Arabi: Min Huna Bada at wa Hadhi hiya Bayanatuha ( The Story of Surrealism in the Arab World: From Here It Began, and Here Are Its...