...Jean-Hubert Martin This interview is between Hassan Musa, a Sudan-born artist residing in France, and Jean-Hubert Martin. Issues discussed include identity, politics, and the state of the world, including colonization and the status of artists in Sudan. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal...

...Esra Akcan This article explores the architectural typology of the verandah by following its use in residential buildings during the post-Ottoman British colonization and Independence periods in Sudan and differentiating between the concepts of climate determinism and climate consciousness...

...Salah Hassan From the Editor As this issue goes to press, Sudan is once again being engulfed by war. This time the violence comes at the hands of two military leaders. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who betrayed the People s Revolution of 2018 2019, led the coup that removed the civilian...

... Diab's Dara: alive and well and determined to Sudan University, spend their being considered political challenge torpid concepts. Dara...

.... Furthermore, his painterly experimentation exerted (Senegal), to name only a few of the important figures who transformed the kind of influence over the work of a generation of artists in Sudan and the visual art movement in Africa. But in many ways El Salahi's career has other African...

... imagination brought about by legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and bourgeois statecraft in Sudan. Shaddad seems interested in the ways the moving picture articulates itself, how it stretches and composes meaning when liberated from the burden of the sonic — a re-evaluation of the terms of language...

... from his homeland of the Sudan to Kodi's work, "the post-inde• remain spectators, just as is the ASRAR: A Visual Dialogue case...

... was originally meant to be pieces stored variously in Britain, Qatar, and Sudan. the inaugural exhibition of the Museum for Afri- And in this process they rescued Reborn Sounds . . . can Art (MAA) when it opened its new building in 1 from El-­Salahi’s late father’s room in the fam- New York’s “Museum Mile...

... history. As Barthosa Nkurumeh once said, in Nour’s works one senses a “timelessness,” which “transcends the cultural space that inspired their evolution.” Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 Amir Nour sculpture Sudan Chicago minimalism Brevity is the Soul of Wit AMIR NOUR...

... and fuse abstraction with figuration.4 Williams spent ten years in Sudan and Nigeria between 1957 and 1967 and would likely have been exposed to the Khartoum School and to artists in Nigeria, following Uche Okeke s call for a natural synthesis. 5 This could have been an opportune moment to posit...

... in tellectual, novelist and scholar, was conducting defined by dimension." the Sudan, lecturing in Khartoum. Williams archeological research into the precolumbian Since 1947 when India grasped its indepen• taught and did research at the University of Ife...

...), Gilane Tawadros (England/Egypt), Bedri Baykam (Turkey), Cornelia Lauf (USA), Salah Hassan (Sudan), Nancy Spero (USA), loseph Kosuth (USA), Ibrahim Salahi (Sudan), Olu Oguibe (Nigeria), CarmilloStrano (Italy), among a few others. institution. According to a cultural...

... colorism and porary art. Khalil was born in ers have become permeable and the history of Western art. delicacy—a tender sensibility Burri, Sudan, in 1936 and gradu• re-definable boundaries. Michelangelo's David appears...

... Grant Farred, special issue editor “What’s Left of“What’s the Left? Left ofThe the ViewLeft? The from View Sudan,” from Sudan,” “What’s Left of the Left? The View from Sudan...

... Williams in the Sudan and Nigeria, Ethiopian Skunder Boghossian in the United States, and American Jacob Lawrence in Nigeria. The circum- stances of their travel and residences differ, yet by immersing themselves in the new, receptive commu- nities, their work helped shape contemporary art...

... to acknowledge the tragedy of the asked what he thought about the idea and process, genocide occurring in Sudan and the resulting dis- Holland replied: “Honestly, I think it is some kind placement of millions of refugees, and it also rep- of hustle, but I enjoyed the fact that they said I was resents his...

... African Art in Africa: An exhibition of seven her masters in Art History from Columbia important modern artists from Senegal, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, University in New York. She was also the curator...

... of "native" Africans in traditional of self-consciousness in French ed from their natural context; they mean that black style in America dress bobbing and keening for the Sudan in the '60s and '70s, and of are _Ye-Ye,_ or fly, or prototypical- has...

... to the essentializing tendencies which plagued the field of African art. As the synchronisity of having artists such as Ibrahim El Salahi of Sudan, Sue Williamson of South Africa, and Ghada Amer of Egypt in one panel testifies, Africa or African modernity can no longer be looked at through artificial...

... recently in Sudan. The battles between the protes- tors and the regime are so similar to what happened in Egypt that Egyptian activists are now referencing their own aborted revolution mockingly every time a parallel event takes place in Sudan. Breaking the barrier of fear would not be pos- sible without...