Most Recent Articles from African Arts

• Art and nationalism in Nigeria 

  Art history is an apt ground for the definition of national ideologies owing to its ability to probe the historical circumstance of the object....

  06/22/09 by Francis Ugiomoh · More from publication

• Response to F. Ugiomoh, "art and nationalism" 

  There is no disputing the fact that such artists as Onabolu and Enwonwu have been important to the development of modern art in Nigeria and were...

  06/22/09 by Olubukola A. Gbadegesin · More from publication

• Dreams of home in expanding diasporas 

  In the recent Dialogue discussion on nationalism and transnationalism in contemporary art in and out of Africa, Sidney Kasfir makes a reference to...

  06/22/09 by Heather Shirey · More from publication

• Calling home 

  In response to Kasfir et al., I would add that we ought to better historicize this moment of contemporary art turning from African to its...

  06/22/09 by John Peffer · More from publication

• Dollar Falls, transnational dynamics, and mediums of national art 

  My response to "[Dis]placement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld" is framed by the provocative mixed-medium installation Dollar Falls...

  06/22/09 by Elsbeth Joyce Court · More from publication

• Willie Cole's Africa remix: trickster and "tribe" 

  [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Willie Cole (Fig. 1), like many African-American artists of his generation--those born or spending their early childhoods in...

  06/22/09 by Jean Borgatti · More from publication

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