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...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 KAMAL YOUSSEF Egyptian Surrealism s Time Capsule A Tribute Salah M. Hassan T his essay is a tribute to the late Egyptian American artist Kamal Youssef, who lived and worked since the late 1950s in Dayton, a small town in rural...

... experienced in real time while also demonstrating the impossibility of the dominant temporal order to account for Black living and being. Sharpening focus on several of the images of Frazier’s Grandma Ruby, featured in the series, The Notion of Family also examines how Frazier uses her photographic practice...

...Faridah Folawiyo [email protected] The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure . National Portrait Gallery , London February 22 — May 19 , 2024 Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 portraiture black figure London exhibitions REVIEW...

...Ahmed Bedjaoui A few years after achieving its independence in 1962, Algeria, under the umbrella of the Organization of the African Union, organized the first Pan African Cultural Festival, referred to as PANAF. The festival it took place in Algiers in July 1969 during a time when a few African...

..., and Jefferson Pinder, and continues on to Accra, Ghana in 2014. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 W. E. B. Du Bois Du Bois in Our Time University Museum of Contemporary Art University of Massachusetts Amherst exhibition...

...Erica Moiah James Critiques of anachronism have been used to dismiss art made in the Caribbean since the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This article argues that in order to render Caribbean art in the critical imagination, one must first decolonize notions of time foundational to the discipline...

...; on the simultaneously, enjoins the viewer to two for some time, but still have not here. We arrive at the opening of the other hand, art has evolved into a so - engage with the image as a moment found a way of taming...

... celebrations of globalism and the overarching geographic and spatial taxonomies that still dominate most African art exhibitions. Instead, the exhibition foregrounded the ambiguous presence of colonial time in the analysis of Africa by emphasizing temporal interconnections and transitional moments. By refusing...

...Roger Prager Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 SS/IHC TIME, SP. CE, MOVEMEHT...

... closing time. As the embracing on a bed, then engaging in a ritualized sadomasochistic guard paces the galleries, a huge 19th-century painting titled Slaves encounter, in which each is suspended upside down from a rack by on the West Coast of Africa, by the French artist Francois-Auguste two other men...

... 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...

... that he found "sharply intelli• So Committed to the Image: gent" at the time. Contemporary Black Photo• graphers, a big, home-grown sur• In any case, few of the vey that opens today, isn't...

..., center-screen, stares precisely timed fade-ins and fade-outs, along with T out to sea, a moped hums past and we hear the exploitation of the dual-screen presentation. the watery babble of voices, the sound of the Stairs are employed as a powerful metonym for sea; he...

.... Nevertheless, artists must in this manner, visitors with little prior knowledge bear the burden of the culture, history, and local of the background would see them only as fine conditions and customs of the time and place in works of art made of used aluminum caps and seals...

...- come together. Although many of the contributions tion is one that contemporary scholars at times take are intended to stand on their own, the issue opens for granted, forgetting that a specific set of historical itself most fully when followed from beginning to developments allowed...

... around about what kind of person he Africa. The two of them were in the kitchen work- was, and some said that he was unpredictable and ing from a large French cookbook. They were mak- tough to deal with. One person told me about a time ing a sh soup. he made a photographer wait for four hours before...

... Slaves, which became the quintessential archetype for the legal structure of a slave society in the New World.5 The concept was now set out for the first time in law...

...Elizabeth W. Giorgis The formal properties, styles, and techniques of telsem fascinates viewers from Ethiopia and abroad. Drawn traditionally on parchment and in acrylic in contemporary times, the sophisticated and intricate lines of telsem consist of symbols that are spectacularly expressive...

... of the Missouri River, was a crossroads for Northern Plains Indians. The place-based project, Cherry River, created by artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American researcher Shane Doyle, was produced by Mountain Time Arts, a collaborative arts and culture organization in southwestern Montana. In an effort...