OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Arts is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Motifs in Motion: Fes Belts (Ahzima) and Moroccan Design Innovation in the Mediterranean World	2
Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts	2
Shifting Paradigms and Practice: An Ethical Return from the Fowler Museum at UCLA	2
Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art	2
The Doctor, Ghana, and Me	1
I Hold in My Hand…: Prestige, Rank, and Power	1
On the Origins of the Récades of the Kings of Dahomey	1
Saturdays	1
Doran Ross, Our Mentor and Friend	1
Unravelling Regional and Global Connections: Historical Kente and Related Textiles in Ghana, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire	1
We Made It in Venice! But Then …? Reversing Notions of Center and Periphery	1
An Unwavering Passion: Doran Ross's Scholarship on Asafo Flags	1
Beyond the “Popular” versus “Serious” Criticism Binary: Towards New Histories of Black Art Criticism	1
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition	1
Erratum: Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip	1
Power Objects	0
Alternative curated by Jean Kamba	0
Editing in the Time of COVID	0
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco: An Object-Based Study of Dutch Printing for the Colonial East African Market, 1876–1971	0
Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip curated by Erica P. Jones and Elaine Eriksen Sullivan	0
L'Art de cour d'Abomey, le sens des objets by Gaëlle Beaujean	0
Doran H. Ross: His Fabulous Fowler Years	0
Lagos and Its Representation in Visual Arts	0
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation edited by Rebecca Peabody,	0
A Conversation with Herbert M. Cole	0

Pape Diop's Mystical Graffiti: A Twenty-Year Retrospective	0
Honoring Doran Ross: The Beads, Body, & Soul Project & Beyond …	0
Freddy Tsimba, Mabele Eleki Lola! The Earth, Brighter than Paradise	0
TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair	0
Continental Collaboration: Consulting, Institution Building, and Mentoring Across Africa	0
The Language of Beauty in African Art curated by Constantine Petridis	0
Writing with Others	0
The Long View: Leadership at a Critical Juncture for “African Art” in America	0
Before Nollywood: The Ideal Photo Studio curated by Amy Staples. Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits Originating curator: Selene Wendt; Smithsonian curator: Karen Milbourne	0
African Arts — Global Conversations	0
Early African Ivories	0
Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s	0
Remembering a Great Man: A Conversation with Kwame Akoto of Almighty God Art Works	0
Atta Kwami: September 14, 1956-October 6, 2021	0
The Arts of Africa: Studying and Conserving the Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Richard B. Woodward, Ash Duhrkoop, Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, Sheila Payaqui, Ainslie Harrison, Casey Mallinckrodt,	0
Nkwọ Onunu Cultural Heritage in Nsukka Igbo, Nigeria	0
Doran Hrothgar Ross Scholar, Trickster, Connoisseur	0
Breathing Room: Working Principles of Independent Art Spaces in African Cities	0
The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections	0
Personal Reflections on Technologies and the Study of African Art	0
Uli: The Colonial Archive as Decolonial Cultural Resource	0
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography curated by Osei Bonsu	0
Heroes: Principles of African Greatness by Kevin D. Dumouchelle	0
Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition curated by James Green and Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition by James Green with contributions by Olúṣẹ̀yẹ Adéṣọlá, Anne Turner	0
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 1: Behind The Mask: African Art History in a Pandemic Era	0
Sane Wadu: I Hope So curated by Mukami Kuria and Angela Muritu	0
William Fagaly March 1, 1938-May 23, 2021	0
Practical Work: Sapeuses (Women Sapeurs) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
Michael Armitage	0
Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera	0
That the House May Stand Again: Veranda Posts in Ọ̀yọ́ Palace	0
Sahel:Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara	0
Touched and Changed: Self-Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Fieldwork	0
Carnival in Africa	0
Igshaan Adams: A Body of Work	0
Doran H. Ross	0
Beyond Listening: Systemic Transformation in Fashion Studies and Fashion Collections	0
Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head	0
Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria	0
An Ancient Terracotta Figure from Sierra Leone	0
Colonial Legacies: Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo by Gabriella Nugent	0
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember curated by Emma Lewis	0
Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges	0
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong	0
Doran H. Ross: Generosity. Intellect. Passion.	0
The Cloth That Eats Money: Ṣeghoṣen as a Symbol of Prestige	0
Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime: Embodying Social Being curated by Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime and Basak Tarman	0
Africa Fashion curated by Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray and curated by Ernestine White-Mifetu and Annissa Malvoisin	0
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts	0
The Lower Niger Bronzes: Beyond Igbo Ukwu, Ife, and Benin by Philip M. Peek	0

Doran—The Elephant-in-Chief	0
Doran's Being in Africa	0
Excellent!: Textiles from Mali	0
Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa	0
Exterminate All the Brutes directed by Raoul Peck	0
PLAN B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This Is Not Working by Goldendean	0
Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power	0
Wellcome Dispersal at the National Museum of Ghana	0
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art	0
Panoramas from the Periphery: Women's History Tapestries at Rorke's Drift	0
Contemporary Mythos of Spirits and Genies: A Conversation with Ibrahima Thiam	0
What Is African Art? A Short History by Peter Probst	0
Mapping the Earth's Embrace: Queer Life-Building in Mame-Diarra Niang's Éthérée	0
Changes Everywhere You Look	0
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times curated by Paul Basu	0
One Who Dreams Is Called A Prophet by Sultan Somjee	0
Augure (2023) a film by Baloji and Augurism curated by Baloji and Elisa De Wyngaert	0
Expanded Range: Projects on African Material from Welcome's Historical Medical Museum	0
Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel by Susan J. Curtis	0
Dancing Altars	0
Create to Free Yourself curated by Stephan Köhler	0
Reconstituting Fragments	0
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt	0
Gatekeepers and Vengeful Spirits of the Ọ̀wọ̀ Past: Word and Act Made Visible	0
Full Circle: A Half Century of Friendship	0
Textiles in the History of the History of African Art	0
Ceremonial Bill-Hooks from Sierra Leone	0
documenta fifteen, kassel	0
Morphing Identity and Style in Contemporary Ghanaian Painting: Two Artists From Sekondi-Takoradi	0
“We are Yoruba” or the Notion of African Art in Brazil	0
Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade	0
Reimagining Borders curated by Clairmont Chung	0
Deep Ties: Cole and Ross, 1972–2020	0
The African Origin of Civilization curated by Alisa LaGamma and Diana Craig Patch; Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room curated by Hannah Beachler, Michelle Commander, Ian Alteve	0
African Vernacular Symbols of Black Intersex Children in Sinethemba Ngubane's Installations (2007-2016)	0
“Bring the Objects out of the Basement!”: The Wellcome African Collection at Manchester Museum	0
Beyond Narratives: Interstitial Provenance as a Methodology for Transfers of African Arts	0
Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa by Brian Valente-Quinn	0
Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta	0
We Write to You About Africa curated by Laura De Becker and Ozi Uduma; Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution curated by Laura De Becker, Bridget Grier, Timnet Gedar, and Ozi Uduma	0
The “Black Art” Renaissance:African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents	0
The Swahili World	0
Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 by Rebecca Zorach	0
Lumumba in the Arts	0
Erratum: Textiles in the History of the History of African Art	0
A Museum of Black Civilizations in the Contemporary World: In conversation with Hamady Bocoum	0
Public Art Forms as Image and Cultural Identity of Indigenous Towns in the Òkè-Ògùn Region of Ọ̀yọ́ State, Nigeria	0
Oubour curated by Vanessa Brito and Suspended spaces and Femmes d'Alger dans leurs nouveaux appartements curated by Vanessa Brito	0
El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu	0
The Spiral and The Crossroads: The Dual Universalisms of Senegal's First Art Museum	0
Egúngún: Reminiscence of Colors, Dance, and Fun	0
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity	0
Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album	0
The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture—Photographs from the Walther Collection	0
Tragedy of the Nation in Ndidi Dike's State of the Nation	0
Power and Play	0
(Re)collecting and (Re)connecting Dispersed Material Culture from Lesotho and the Wider Region: A Proposed Project	0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: A Historiography	0
Pragmatism in Yoruba Art: Dada Areogun's Narrative Woodcarving as Cultural Stewardship	0
Doran Ross: The Scholar of Akan Art	0
The Ritual Solidarity of Masked Processions in Calabar, Cameroon, and Cuba	0
Traditional Igbo Architecture: A Symbolic Evaluation	0
Sam Joseph Ntiro: Mapping the Path of a Pioneering Artist, Educator, Scholar, Diplomat, and Civil Servant	0
Cloth is Money: Textiles from the Sahel	0
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 2: Coups, Pandemics, and Careers in African Art History	0
Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations by Christopher L. Richards	0
Dressing Modern Like Our Mothers: Dress, Identity, and Cultural Praxis in Oromia by Peri M. Klemm	0
Teaching African Art in the Time of AI	0
The House that Khadambi Asalache Carved Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006)	0
The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond	0
Madame Zo: Bientôt je vous tisse tous (Soon I Will Weave You All) curated by Bérénice Saliou and Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung	0
Collecting the Past, Facing the Future: Revealing Collections’ Connections Using the Archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library	0
Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia	0
“Knowledge” or “Progress?”: Do They Have to Be Mutually Exclusive?	0
Carnival and the Theme of Migration	0
Erratum: Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts	0
A Reconsideration of the History and Iconology of Yorùbá Equestrian Figure through Two Ifá Verses and the Ojúde-Ọ ba Festival	0
Egypt in/and Africa Exhibitions, Questions and Complexities in American Art Museums	0
Art du Bénin d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: de la Restitution à la Révélation curated by Léa Awunou Roufai and Yassine Lassissi (contemporary art) and Edmond Toli, Alain Godonou, and José Pliya (Danxomèan a	0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction	0

The Early Egyptian and Sudanese Collections of Sir Henry Wellcome	0
Calabar Carnival	0