Okwui Enwezor 0 ne of the problematic aspects of visiting museums, art gal-leries, and other
sites of cultural valuation, in Europe and the United States, is the pervasive absence in these …

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 …

Everyone recognizes that the study of African art, as well as the art itself, has changed very
significantly over the past generation. This assertion, now hardened into fact, has taken …

(Rubin 1984) was reopened and also subverted by" Magiciens de la Terre" at the Centre
Pompidou in 1989. In the for-mer, precolonial African and Oceanic art was presented as a …

Ironically, just as it has finally entered museum collections and curricula worldwide, a
majority of Africanist scholars of all generations-not just the youngest ones-have been …

During the fifty year period of the second half of the 20th century the field of African Art
History, as well as the forms of art studies and art exhibitions have changed considerably …

In the current stampede to exhibit contemporary African art, several canons have already
made their appearance to different critical responses. One recalls Jean-Christophe Pigozzi's …

This panel, convened from September 4 to October 10, 2009, is the second of a three-part
series on issues in contemporary African art. The first panel, which appeared in issue 22/23 …

DAVIS GALLERY with the potential of eliciting surprise, even dis-belief, just as it translates a
paradigmatic and ideological position. In its brevity this title is almost exclamatory: the …

Studies on African sculpture serve as point of reference in this paper. Since a full analysis of
African sculpture cannot easily be separated from its sociological, technological, and …