Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art

07/09/2015

Getting our special issue on black fashion, guest-edited by Noliwe Rooks, ready for design. Can't wait to see this one laid out!

06/24/2015

From our friends at X-TRA: "Risk Assessment," a review by Sarah Petersen http://x-traonline.org/article/risk-assessment/

The exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art invites the kind of argumentation that political art seems to inspire, including the urge to parse out the terms of discussion. I overheard and read quite a few of these types of responses, including those from viewers who asked,…

06/24/2015

"Where indeed are the voices of the Donaldsons, Beardens, Purifoys, and Ringgolds of the movement?"

06/24/2015

In our new special issue editor Chika Okeke-Agulu asks, "When will contemporary artists acknowledge through their work that something profound . . . is happening in our streets?"

06/16/2015

Special issue 36, Visualizing the Riot, is due to mail on June 19! If you haven't yet subscribed to Nka, now is the time.

05/28/2015

The Swenkas, a documentary by Jeppe Ronde

Director: Jeppe Ronde DoP: Lars Skree Editor: Olivier Bugge Coutté Producer: Rasmus Thorsen & Anne Diemer Cosmo Film

05/07/2015

Cornell's LYRAE VAN CLIEF-STEFANON joins in responding to Jacob Lawrence painting.

The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of art known as the Migration Series. Now all 60 of Lawrence's small paintings are on show at the Museum of…

05/01/2015

“Voodoo,” a long-unheard opera by the pioneering African-American composer and Harlem Renaissance figure H. Lawrence Freeman, will return this June to New York.

“Voodoo,” by the pioneering African-American composer H. Lawrence Freeman, will be performed in a pair of June concerts at Columbia University that will be recorded.