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...Hannah Sage Kay [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FRANK BOWLING: LONDON/NEW YORK HAUSER AND WIRTH, NEW YORK MAY 5 JULY 30, 2021 expect from binary relationships whether contextual (North and South, regional and global) or aesthetic (light...

... Johannesburg Biennale and a program for the Bob has expanded rapidly, African film festivals are pop• York City. It will come as no surprise to anyone who Marley Museum in Kingston, and Bonetti sat...

...Megan Kincaid; Summer Sloane-Britt This article is an expanded version of a catalogue essay written for the 2021 exhibition Cauleen Smith , H-E-L-L-O: To Do All At Once , Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The event was the first online exhibition of the series, due...

... Publications Publicity poster for Ousmane Sembène, Guelwaar, originally released in 1992. New Yorker Films, New York, 1999 Amkpa and SenGupta Nka • 15 pling the aid from notions of Christian morality...

... 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...

...Lauren Kroiz In 1971, Harold Cousins published an essay explaining the sculptures that he had begun creating in the mid-1950s, following his relocation in October 1949 from New York to Paris. Cousins described his series named Plaiton , his own neologism combining the English word plate...

...Julia Elizabeth Neal Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power is a meticulous case study into an embattled New York art establishment, which black artists critiqued as perpetuating racist, exclusionist collecting and exhibition practices during the 1960s...

... of fractured yet imaginative Creole communiqués have a counterpart in the paintings, sculptures, and collages of the Haitian-born, Paris-based artist Hervé Télémaque (b. 1937). After studying in the mid-1950s at the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Télémaque moved to New York City, where he attended...

.... Diawara’s eventual film chronicles the author’s travels with Glissant on the Queen Mary II across the Atlantic from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York, as well as his stay with Glissant in the philosopher’s native Martinique in the Caribbean. Diawara recounts the experience while...

...Geoffrey Jacques The exhibition of prints Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now , curated by Judith B. Hecker at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, offered a view of South African art-making practice that flourished among all sectors of society during the apartheid years. The exhibition evoked...

...Lydie Diakhaté This review concerns the Walther Collection’s first photographic show, devoted to the work of Jo Ractliffe at the Project Space in New York. Radcliffe’s work offers the viewer a magical journey of remembrance through the long years of civil wars, mapping their tragedies onto...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner The recent exhibition Charles White: A Retrospective (Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 2018–January 13, 2019) offered a chance to consider the technical and iconographic breadth of an oeuvre that has been exhibited mainly in sporadic doses for the past few decades...

... career, accompanied by a select number of images of his oeuvre from his early days in his native Alexandria to his sojourns in Baghdad and Cairo, and his current practice in New York City, where he has been living since 1974. It also offers a glimpse, in image and in text, of his diverse corpus...

... he brings together necessarily encourage us to deepen our knowledge of African and American history and culture. Works discussed include Lovell’s 2008 Kith and Kin exhibition at D. C. Moore Gallery in New York and his Kin Series , an ongoing sequence of images and tableaux dedicated to African...

...Nicole J. Caruth In April 2009 Kira Lynn Harris debuted a new body of work in a solo presentation at CUE Art Foundation in New York. This article examines two site-specific installations in that exhibition: 2001, Mirror , which references Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey , and Prism...

...Manthia Diawara In 2009, equipped with a camera, Manthia Diawara followed Édouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a transatlantic journey from South Hampton, United Kingdom, to Brooklyn, New York. This extraordinary voyage, six days and five nights, resulted in an intellectual biography in which...

... revisiting the modernist avant-garde and the early years of cinema. These interests are brought together in his designs for Shostakovich’s opera The Nose , at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Kentridge began in the theater and is now returning to it more often; how is theatricalization changing the nature...

...Connie Winston Founded in 1972, the Hatch-Billops Collection houses an extensive archive of African American memorabilia and exists as a direct result of the 1965 “open admissions” policy at the City College of New York, where James Hatch was teaching theater history. Today the collection’s mission...

...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...

.... The series, only recently seen in its entirety in an exhibition curated by the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, New York, of Ringgold’s 1960s paintings, should be considered a brilliant contribution to the trajectory and consequently the narrative of American art at all levels. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal...