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 diasporas. In the 1970s and 1980s, as art world …

Reading the Contemporary brings together twentytwo essays and articles from numerous art
magazines and journals, written between 1991-97. Divided into four sections—'Theory and …

The Art of Liberating Voices Page 1 KRISTINE ROOME The Art of Liberating Voices
Contemporary South African Art Exhibited in New York A beautiful display of the grandeur of …

Over the past fifteen years, critical and cura torial attention in the field of contemporary
African art has shifted steadily away from a primarily tropical geography of practice toward a …

Tradition-based African arts have always been vehicles for knowledge production, both by
original owners and users and for subsequent collectors, curators, academics, and …

African art has, since the 1980s, gained ground in the Western contemporary art world.
Large-scale shows featuring African art have set the stage for portrayals of a post-colonial …

A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of
contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout …

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of the town in New York City this summer. The opening at the Solomon R. Guggenheim …

Europeans have been moving in and out of Africa for centuries, penetrating the lives and
histories of African peoples, appropriating their wealth, and accumulating the stories that …

Three issues ago (African Arts 41 (3): io-i2), we began a discussion of what it means for an
artist to engage in an Africa-grounded prac tice, as opposed to a diasporic one. In this issue …