...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

...Michelle Stephens “Defacing the Gaze and Reimagining the Black Body: Contemporary Caribbean Women Artists” examines works by visual artists Oneila Russell, Holly Bynoe, Patricia Kaersenhout, and Ebony Patterson, exploring how these contemporary artists wrestle with the terms in which we see black...

... of "gendered visions" as it investi• CONTEMPORARY gates the non-aesthetic motiva• AFRICANA WOMEN...

...Kay Brown Although the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s signaled one of the most significant developments in recent American art history, black women artists, for the most part, were underrepresented in major gallery and museum exhibitions at the movement’s inception. “Where We At” Black...

... The aim is to through expei Juliet Highet ost people are deeply astonished to discover that there is Ma dynamic contemporary Arab art scene, and even more astounded that Arab women artists are among its most...

... of African life and culture, which looked far different from the images of bare-breasted women and men in loincloths that filled the pages of National Geographic . Afro-look fashions, and the models and other socialites who sported them, became a symbol for African opulence, style, and glamour in a time...

...-Kayode. It should be engaged as a model for a deeply interdisclipinary and histori- cally attuned art history and criticism. Roderick A. Ferguson is a professor of women s, gender, and sexuality studies; American studies; African American studies; and ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University...

... of Center for Women s and Gender Studies and the the exhibitions of art. The photographic essay docu- African and African Diaspora Studies Program at ments the multimedia event involving Indigenous Florida International University in Miami. and local forms of music, dance, and song while centering...

... difference gets were prospering. Which is to say, across race and commodified. Some pieces explore how women and time, for those who are elite and those who are not, men construct identities or craft selves through body fashion has the ability to speak, or communicate, in modification in order...

...Tiffany M. Gill Perhaps no aspect of black women’s corporality is more contested and debated than their hair. Social-media personalities of the self-described natural-hair community mediate complex and often contentious conversations about black women’s bodies and lives in the twenty-first century...

...Erin Farrell The exhibition Revisions offers a unique opportunity to see the development of Lalla Essaydi’s ideas as they pertain both to her personal history and to the greater story of Moroccan women. Through analysis of the various collections on view at the Smithsonian National Museum...

... photographers in the art world, he worked with master artists, intellectuals, and photographers. Also in 1968, a group of black men—plus one woman— formed Essence Communications Inc. A momentous triangulation of the women’s liberation movement, the cultural nationalism of African American people in the United...

...Mireille Miller-Young This essay explores how black feminists working in the area of sexuality and visual culture necessarily face serious questions about what it means to present images of black women’s sexuality. Examining 1980s porn star Jeannie Pepper’s career, the author argues that black...

... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...

...Ahmed Bedjaoui Filmmaker Djamila Sahraoui is a product of the feminization of Algerian cinema that became dominant in the last decade of the twentieth century. More than thirty years since novelist Assia Djebar came onto the scene with her feminist stance, Algerian women are finally rendering...

...Christopher J. Lee This essay reviews a series of photographs by South African photographer Omar Badsha exhibited as part of Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15). Collectively entitled Once We Were Warriors: Women and Resistance in the South African Liberation Struggle (1981–1999) , the thirty-one images...

...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...

...Salah M. Hassan In 1986 Gallery 1199 in New York and the Muse Community Museum in Brooklyn jointly organized a two-part exhibition for “Where We At” Black Women Artists, the collective of African American women artists. The exhibition was an initiative of “Where We At,” when its members decided...

... of transatlantic slavery provided the capital that galvanized white Western art systems of patronage, collection, and exhibition into existence. He represents black women, men, and children as the appropriate subjects of fine art at the same time that he remains dedicated to restoring the history...