..., Senegal, 1913, Artist unknown SUFI ARTS OF URBAN SENEGAL 'The photo of Bamba is indispensable. Little by little, the photo...

... in Diba’s precedent mixed-media work. With more than four decades of artistic practice and a doctorate in urban geography from the University of Nice, Diba has long explored issues involving urban life in his work. In this installation, the artist translated the order and disorder of Dakar’s streets...

... is in Trouble because of This Man Lumumba) Oil on cotton, 18x13" PATRICE LUMUMBA IN URBAN ART Elizabeth Harney J ean-Paul Sartre labeled Patrice Lumumba a "revolutionary without revolution, not a hero, but a mar• tyr of Pan-Africanism" (Van Lierde, 1963). His characterization underscores...

... contemporary urban, artistic, and cultural develop- 18 to July 29, 2013. 2. A number of works from Surveys (from the Cape of Good ment, with special attention to the African continent. Hope) were previously shown in the Galilee or Lady Chapel of Dur- He has...

.... PLEASURE. POLITICS. article of clothing and a menacing, violent, urban, male identity, became justification for his murder at the hands of George Zimmerman. For these rea...

... urban Africa and the untouched villages or France and the Soviet Union. A comparatively undifferentiated poverty that one sees so often large number of Senegalese were able to study...

... production to date, including Oikonomos (2011–2012), Tipo Passe (2012–2014), and Desacelera O Mambo: Celebrating Life by Slowing Down Perception (2015). Chagas examines the multiple ways in which bodies and identities, objects and commodities, images and imaginations dwell in the urban spaces of the global...

...Osei Bonsu Incited by the tempestuous political histories that engender the repressive conditions of the country’s social reality, South African artists often conspire toward activism. For Cameron Platter, who lives in the urbanized province of KwaZulu-Natal near the former battlefield of Rorkes...

...Hannah Feldman Kader Attia is a French Algerian artist who now divides his time among Berlin, Algiers, and Paris. This article surveys his sculptural and photographic practice since his provocative Piste d’atterrissage (1997). It argues that Attia’s invocation of modernist urbanism, religious...

... installation (based on the earlier Rocher carrés ) is a series of blocks four meters high and two meters wide, made of Sheetrock panels covered with recycled gray paper, sloping at an angle of forty-five or sixty degrees. Attia intends for them to suggest urban architecture in the process of collapsing...

...Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Cullen Washington’s work exudes energy, rawness, and a visceral urban vibe, manifesting a fighting engagement with painting practice, painting history, and painting’s entrapments and luring out into the open the hidden implications of masculinity and race versus...

... in South Africa’s National Gallery. His career flourished until he joined up to serve his country in World War II. In 1956, during the “urban removals” enforced by the Nationalist government’s apartheid policy, Tladi and his family were brutally dispossessed of their freehold property and left homeless. He...

...Julia Kim Werts Throughout the mid-twentieth century, Ethiopia experienced a period of rapid modernization that affected the ways in which the Ethiopian people—particularly those in the capital city of Addis Ababa—navigated the shifting world around them. Their relationship with a modernizing urban...

... begins to explore the ontology and materiality of a process that saw the aesthetic embodiment and reconstruction of diasporic Caribbeanness in a British context of the dressed black male body—a body that would come to reconfigure the streets of urban Britain with fresh, dynamic masculinities in motion...

... artists. This article focuses on two specific exhibitions and artists: Eugene Palmer’s Didn’t It Rain (2018) and Barbara Walker’s Sub Urban: New Drawings (2015), both organized at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. The author stresses the contrasting relationship to photography that each...

... and labels rely on the tired tropes of the tribal and traditional to create fantastical pan-African architectural typologies, undermining genuine explorations of the local. Copyright © 2017 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017 African architecture urban cities tradition contemporary...

... culture. Burnett's first film, Killer of fictionally through the story of a young black fam• Sheep (1973), is set in Watts not long after the ily caught in the throes of black urban despair. Watts Riots of 1965 but is focused on urban life Bush Mama is subsequently dependant on a rather than urban...

... street and not see a striking visual image that is either mechanically reproduced or a performed image of urban self-fash• mm d City Life In ioning...

... the sound of the approaching man s footsteps he walked music also he knew the beauty of the narrow blue. Richard Bruce Nugent, Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (1926) M anhattan is the urban grid par excellence. The island exhibits an abundance of orthogonal geometry, right angles defining the intersections...