Recently added articles from African Arts:
More on nationalism and Nigerian art.(dialogue)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... The argument between Ugiomoh and Gbadegesin about nationalism in modern Nigerian art highlights the unfortunate situation of an African art history carried out without directly engaging the primary texts that framed such discourses in specific historical contexts. The history and role of ...
The power of ephemera: permanence and decay in protective power objects.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Busu Nyumbani has been making and installing empowered objects in the name of his "father of medicine," the practitioner Nyumbani Shilinde, for more than fifteen years (Fig. 1). When he buries wooden pegs filled with empowering substances at a house compound, they are activated to protect ...
The phenomenon of recuperation at the Dak'Art Biennale.(dialogue)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In 1992, at the first edition of Dak'Art, Moustapha Dime (Senegal 1952-1998) won the Grand Prize for his sculpture La Dame d la culotte. This object, made from a large tree trunk into which the artist carved only breasts and inserted a large spike topped with a bit of scavenged plastic ...
Framing the ephemeral.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The articles assembled here and in a forthcoming issue of African Arts (vol. 43, no. 1, Spring 2010) explore the theme of ephemeral art, and are based on two panels co-organized by Christine Mullen Kreamer and myself for the Triennial meeting of the Arts ...
The radiance of the King.(first word)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Along with many other eager fans of both the curator and his subject, I visited the Ernie Wolfe Gallery in West LA shortly after the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama for the opening of "Out of Africa: Obama and McCain." The subheading on the fancy invite filled in a little of the back ...