African Arts articles from June 2008

African Arts archives from June 2008

"Image ethics" in and about Africa.(first word)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... The thoughts to follow are inspired by a number of recent works in art history and visual culture, most of which concern parts of the world other than Africa. The excellent essays of Photography's Other Histories (2003) edited by Christopher...

Da Grace Salome Abra Kwami: 1923-2006.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Grace Kwami was one of the first art specialists in the Gold Coast--now Ghana--an art teacher for more than thirty years, and a practicing artist all her long life. A compulsive maker, she is best remembered for her...

Transforming symbolic identity: wall art and the South African city.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... A vibrantly colored image of women dancing at the beach was enlarged and mounted as a "billboard mural" in the Durban city center in 2003 as part of an innovative public art and advertisement campaign by Cell C, a South African cell phone...

El Anatsui: transformations.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] In March of 2006, while on one of our daily two-hour hikes through the landscape and villages surrounding the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, El Anatsui stopped mid-stride atop a crumpled, dusty, plastic tablecloth lying...

From mission "Africa rooms": Frans M. Olbrechts's rediscovered African collection.
June 22, 2008... Since the end of the nineteenth century, Belgium sent thousands of fathers, friars, and nuns to what was then the Belgian Congo. They left their homeland--some never to return--with the mission to spread the gospel and to create local social...

Sufi sheikhs, sheikhas, and saints of the Sudan.(photo essay)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Sudan contains a multitude of Sufi movements, with diverse origins and characteristics. Some groups were formed as far back as the fifteenth century by Sufi masters originating in Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and...

Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.(exhibition preview)
June 22, 2008... "EEH, IF YOU SEE MAMI WATA, NEVER YOU RUN AWAY..." (SIR VICTOR UWAIFO, GUITAR BOY, 1967) Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas" explores the visual cultures and histories of African and African Atlantic water...

Pandemic in Print: African HIV/AIDS Posters.
June 22, 2008... Pandemic in Print: African HIV/AIDS Posters A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago January 11-February 17, 2007 Africa.Dot.Com: Drums to Digital Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago January 15-February 28,...

Believing Africa.
June 22, 2008... Believing Africa Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI September 2006-February 2009 [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] "Believing Africa" grew out of a year-long collaboration between students...

Modernity and Tradition in a Global World: Fashion in Africa.
June 22, 2008... Modernity and Tradition in a Global World: Fashion in Africa Zuercher Stalder AG, LyssachSchachen, Switzerland June 30-September 1, 2007 Clad in extravagant hand-tailored clothes of boldly patterned and brilliantly colored fabrics,...

Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design.
June 22, 2008... Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design Victoria and Albert Museum, London February 20-June 17, 2007 [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The Victoria and Albert Museum took part in the national...

Choreographies of African Identities.(Choreographies of African Identities: Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Choreographies of African Identities Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal by Francesca Castaldi Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 246 pp. $50 (cloth), $25 (paper) [ILLUSTRATION...