... government, society and the art Khartoum, Sudan, 2001 that offers both Sudanese and community. I I within Khartoum. Art philoso...

... of Sudanese, African and diaspora artists, and by the remarkable breadth and complexity of his work in which he has exhausted all kinds of painterly strategies. Salah Hassan...

... by the Sudanese people during their peaceful revolution, which was exemplary not only because it was youth led, but also because Sudanese women were at its forefront until it achieved victory in 2019 when al-Bashir s military dictatorship was toppled. The 2018 2019 uprising produced some of the most sophisticated...

...Salah M. Hassan Over the span of more than fifty years, the Sudanese American and Chicago-based artist Amir Nour has created sculptures that reflect his remarkable ability to integrate methods, techniques, forms, and ideas that draw from his diverse experiences as a diasporic person. Nour was born...

...Leena Habiballa This essay journeys through the silent dialogues and intimacies in Ibrahim Shaddad’s vivid cinematic oeuvre that render him a genre unto himself and a distinctive presence in Sudanese and African cinema. Much of Shaddad’s experimental work deals with the death of the psychic...

... and colonialism, and most specifically Black/African Marxism, through a close reading of an autobiographical text written by the late Sudanese Marxist, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, in the course of elaborating why he became a Marxist. Mahgoub was very clear in differentiating between Western philosophy and Marxism. He...

... order to exclude and oppress large of Afro-American Art, he, obvious• ferocity of someone outraged by reduced and subsumed by his pref• segments of Sudanese society from ly, also wants his own people to injustice, bigotry and senseless...

..., 2019. Agence France-Presse (AFP), used with permission. Courtesy of the artist and AFP L et us begin with two images of the Sudanese uprising. The first you will at once recognize it is of one fearless Alaa Salah addressing a crowd at a sit-in outside Al-Qiyada (the Army HQ) in Khartoum. The second...

... connotations of the verandah were transformed after Sudanese independence, thanks to its creative use by architects who critically employed the technical know-how progressed under the field of tropical architecture. The article identifies this approach as the search for a more equitable internationalism...

... that reflect this understanding. Over one hundred pieces from five decades fill seven rooms. After training in Khartoum and London, El-Salahi returned home and developed a visionary, syncretic style that reflected his personal interrogation of Sudanese visual identity. The show—a retrospective of an artist who...

... an image of Sudanese Halloween, but the trick is all on the idiocy...

... within primarily at the Nigerian populace also resonates a Sudanese context,” Ibrahim El Salahi and Ahmed with AfriCOBRA’s objectives in the United States. Shibrain carried this a step further by “incorpo- Even earlier, in 1969, we had been introduced to rating calligraphic motifs...

... postcards, work of these two Sudanese artists, by the sheer force of stamps, and pressed flowers. There is an intimacy here their productions, challenges all received notions of what mapped out that speaks volumes about the terrain of abstraction connotes. Here, the debate becomes...

... by it. Such quests for modernity as an attitude among African artists is Authenticity in that sense is something produced not salvaged. reflected in a statement by Amir Nour, the Sudanese-born sculptor Despite new critical perceptions of notions such as "authentic," whose works...

... limited editions of what he calls "artist books" in Sudanese artist, has been working on what he calls Graphic linoprint. Ceremonies, a series of public performances, which decon• The critical appropriation of classical Western masterpieces is structs the idea of exhibition...

... Lagunju, etc.) ability to work in a difficult color like graphic paintings of the Sudanese show was meant to introduce his work brought to the fore again the powerful white In "Dreams", his 1996 solo...

... and its peoples, cultures, and art worlds can offer artists from the diaspora and beyond. We mourn the recent deaths of three major figures in the African art and literary world. On March 25 the Sudanese modernist Ahmed Mohammed Shibrain (1931–2017) passed away in Khartoum. Along...

... are represented at major international expositions where their presence has so far been spotty at best. With a board made up of such major African cultural figures as Sudanese artist Ibrahim El Salahi, Nigerian artist and academic, Obiora Udechukwu, the curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the South African...

... to young Sudanese women in Khar- and several hired day workers) crawling on all fours toum, during a 2008 workshop organized by Hassan along the street. But the sight of humiliated Egyptian through a grant from Cornell University. Though men led by a woman in a hyperpatriarchal society Kenawy’s life...

... in photographic por• works of these photographers "Many Love it so much", says photography thrived all over the traits proliferated all throughout symbolized the critical modern Malian photographer MaLick continent" says Sudanese...