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...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...

...Shawn Michelle Smith This article considers Augustus Washington’s mid-nineteenth-century Liberian daguerreotypes as propositions about a new nation. It suggests that Washington understood the power of his images as propaganda for viewers in the United States and also as documents that registered...

...Jennie Hirsh This review examines the midcareer retrospective Yinka Shonibare MBE in the context of its third and final venue, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. The survey featured examples of the artist’s familiar interests—the complex relationship between colonial...

..., and incubating the early careers of Emma Amos and others. This essay looks at how Spiral’s trip to the March on Washington and its only exhibition demonstrate a lack of aesthetic and social cohesion in the group’s main collective activities, making it a typical example of post-1945 art collectives. Copyright ©...

... individualism that embraces the overriding challenge confronted by Spiral, an artistic alliance that represented African American artists in the March on Washington and that sought to formulate an ongoing artistic response to the civil rights movement. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... of African Art, this review traces the patterns of history and ideology Essaydi incorporates into her images. The exhibition in Washington enables visitors to connect concepts that have evolved over time in Essaydi’s work; this review forges these connections and begins a discussion of their importance...

... curiosity about such theories. Over instructor in the Departments of Art, Honors, and the course of her evolution from formalist painter Liberal Studies at Western Washington University in to cut-paper and installation artist, Evans has Bellingham, Washington. developed her practice intuitively...

.... The photographic portraits of In/Sight forward. Kerman Nka 37 Monique Kerman is an associate professor of artists meant to intentionally oppose apartheid in solidarity with African art history and visual culture at Western antiapartheid activism. Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. 15 In a 2003...

... that regularly occur in Lebanon was enlivened by an engaging soundtrack narrated by El Khoury and her husband, historian Ziad AbuRish, describing their efforts to answer this question. Their research led the couple afar to archives in Washington, DC; Paris; Brussels; and London, where they learned...

... Fonseca and Department of African Studies, Howard numerous others in his other films, he also expos• University, Washington, DC. es their power as social discourse. Le Franc represents an important milestone in the ongoing search for different and novel ways of filming...

... IN YOU IS THE NATION CALL­ ING.”9 It is “NationTime The use of high-­energy color and words were Napoleon Jones-Henderson­ graduated from George elements we saw all day and every day through­ Washington Carver High School and the Art Insti- out the Diaspora and community. We were not tute...

... site-­specific Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in works of art for Earth Matters. They are Strijdom Washington, DC, since May 2008. She has also held van der Merwe of South Africa, El Anatsui of positions as associate curator of African art and Ghana and Nigeria, and Ghada Amer...

...• macabre commentary" lacking in true aesthetic ture Death, and both works were most likely derived 104* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Prentiss Taylor, Christ in Alabana, 1932 Lithograph. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C...

.... exist among black artists.34 Anne Monahan is the Phillips Collection–George By this point, Ringgold had already mounted a Washington University Postdoctoral Fellow for 2014– new show, her Black Light paintings, to favorable 15. She focuses her research...

...), fea- Mixed media, 34 x 29.25 x 33 in. turing twenty-five to thirty black artists, such as Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York John Riddle, Tim Washington, Charles White, and Photo courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York...

... History and Culture, Washington, DC. © Alan Karchmer space, a zone of criticality, in which art could re- informed by its own history and surroundings? How flect the unseens and the unheards of the world in can architecture, then, facilitate new perspectives in which it was created a place where art could...

... African American man giving piano lesson to young African American woman, ca. 1899 1900. Gelatin silver print. Source: W. E. B. Du Bois, Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A., vol. 4, no. 363, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC Burns Nka 9 Exhibit of the American Negroes...

..., with other destinations likely. The minimal amount of extant material traces from these journeys has only reinforced Thomas s association with her adopted hometown of Washington, DC. This indisputable linkage is certainly justified; indeed, the artist spent sixty-six of her eighty-six years in the nation s...

... Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. © Charles White Archive that there was a war in Spain about to erupt. We knew about Franco. 3 White participated in an Exhibition in Defense of Peace and Democracy, sponsored by the American League against War and Fascism, held as a fundraiser to support...

... Collection Frank B. Bemis Fund, Charles H. Bayley Fund, and The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, 2011.1824. Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oetting Nka 55 Beauford Delaney, Washington Square, 1948. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in. Private Collection. © Estate of Beauford Delaney...