Most Recent Articles from African Arts

• The radiance of the King 

  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...

  09/22/09 by Donald Cosentino · More from publication

• The phenomenon of recuperation at the Dak'Art Biennale 

  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...

  09/22/09 by Susan Kart · More from publication

• More on nationalism and Nigerian art 

  The argument between Ugiomoh and Gbadegesin about nationalism in modern Nigerian art highlights the unfortunate situation of an African art history...

  09/22/09 by Sylvester Okwundu Ogbechie · More from publication

• Framing the ephemeral 

  [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The articles assembled here and in a forthcoming issue of African Arts (vol. 43, no. 1, Spring 2010)...

  09/22/09 by Allyson Purpura · More from publication

• Coming together and falling apart: something about brooms and Nigeria 

  [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] There is a popular saying in Nigeria, and if you spend any time on the streets there you will see it...

  09/22/09 by David T. Doris · More from publication

• A conservation conundrum: ephemeral art at the National Museum of African Art 

  The permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art includes both tradition-based and contemporary objects, which...

  09/22/09 by Stephanie E. Hornbeck · More from publication

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