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“… [In "Signs Taken for Wonders at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, curated by Isolde Brielmaier May 28 – July 3, 2009] six artists, Kader Attia, Jn. Ulrick Désert, Julien Friedler, Jeffrey Gibson, Xaviera Simmons, and Carrie Mae Weems, use Africa as their muse as they examine... [view entry]
Discovery Channel insert on Cape Flats b-boy crew, Ubuntu B-Boys, made by Fly on the Wall. [view entry]
Paris-based Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born in Moscow of Algerian parents), above in a video talking about her work at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007 (as part of the “Global Feminisms” exhibition), is one of six artists in “Perspectives: Women, Art & Islam” (going till September 13, 2009), an exhibition opening next... [view entry]
To coincide with the commemoration of the June 16, 1976 uprising in South Africa, the Harlem-based Imagenation Cinema Foundation is screening “Skin,” a fictional film based on the life of Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white Afrikaner parents in the mid-1950s and later declared black by the... [view entry]
My cynicism often gets sidetracked by striking visuals and beautiful lyrics. This is a scene from the documentary “I Bring What I Like,” which focuses on the reaction to Senegalese pop singer N’Dour’s album of Sufi Islam devotional music. That film is finally being shown in New York: On Saturday,... [view entry]
Jonah Weiner, in online magazine Slate, profiles the hipster performance-artist Prince Zimboo Abakunamabooba, who sends up African stereotypes. Produced by Diplo and based in Jamaica, Prince Zimboo “… has 999 wives. He hails from an unnamed region of central Africa (”a thin layer of impenetrable rainforest”) known only as d’bush... [view entry]
“… While that may seem counter-intuitive to Americans accustomed to bleaker images of Africa, recent studies have documented the flight of immigrant professionals from the United States to their home countries. Chinese and Indian workers increasingly say they see better opportunities and lifestyles at home. And diaspora associations of Nigerians,... [view entry]
Princeton political scientist Melissa Harris Lacewell’s impressions of a visit to Cape Town: “… Tourist areas reflect the power of global capitalism and cultural imperialism; making shopping for groceries and clothing entirely indistinguishable from an American shopping experience. Television and radio are completely familiar, as are brands, styles, and dining... [view entry]
