African Arts

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition2
Professor Simon Ottenberg: Memoirs of Hon. Nnachi Enwo as narrated by his son, Dr. Otu Nnachi Enwo2
Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art2
Kader Attia: J’Accuse curated by Thomas Köhler and Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering, curated by Katja Reich2
Shifting Paradigms and Practice: An Ethical Return from the Fowler Museum at UCLA2
Motifs in Motion: Fes Belts (Ahzima) and Moroccan Design Innovation in the Mediterranean World2
Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts2
An Unwavering Passion: Doran Ross's Scholarship on Asafo Flags1
Doran Ross, Our Mentor and Friend1
I Hold in My Hand…: Prestige, Rank, and Power1
On the Origins of the Récades of the Kings of Dahomey1
Remembering Simon1
Beyond the “Popular” versus “Serious” Criticism Binary: Towards New Histories of Black Art Criticism1
Erratum: Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip1
Saturdays1
The Doctor, Ghana, and Me1
Nsibidi Knowledge: The Artistic Philosophy of the Ekpe Secret Society1
Unravelling Regional and Global Connections: Historical Kente and Related Textiles in Ghana, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire1
Breathing Room: Working Principles of Independent Art Spaces in African Cities0
Doran's Being in Africa0
Expanded Range: Projects on African Material from Welcome's Historical Medical Museum0
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
Beyond Narratives: Interstitial Provenance as a Methodology for Transfers of African Arts0
The Long View: Leadership at a Critical Juncture for “African Art” in America0
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times curated by Paul Basu0
Tragedy of the Nation in Ndidi Dike's State of the Nation0
Heroes: Principles of African Greatness by Kevin D. Dumouchelle0
Sane Wadu: I Hope So curated by Mukami Kuria and Angela Muritu0
Sam Joseph Ntiro: Mapping the Path of a Pioneering Artist, Educator, Scholar, Diplomat, and Civil Servant0
Nkwọ Onunu Cultural Heritage in Nsukka Igbo, Nigeria0
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 1: Behind The Mask: African Art History in a Pandemic Era0
Textiles in the History of the History of African Art0
The House that Khadambi Asalache Carved Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006)0
Dressing Modern Like Our Mothers: Dress, Identity, and Cultural Praxis in Oromia by Peri M. Klemm0
Colonial Legacies: Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo by Gabriella Nugent0
Gatekeepers and Vengeful Spirits of the Ọ̀wọ̀ Past: Word and Act Made Visible0
Headnotes, Fieldnotes, and Field Photos: Reflections on the Simon Ottenberg Archives0
Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia0
Practical Work: Sapeuses (Women Sapeurs) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo0
The Language of Beauty in African Art curated by Constantine Petridis0
Carnival and the Theme of Migration0
Morphing Identity and Style in Contemporary Ghanaian Painting: Two Artists From Sekondi-Takoradi0
A Six-Decade Friendship0
“We are Yoruba” or the Notion of African Art in Brazil0
The Early Egyptian and Sudanese Collections of Sir Henry Wellcome0
Ledu: A Prestigious Yam Title and Its Roots (Middle Cross River Region, Nigeria)0
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong0
Editing in the Time of COVID0
Touched and Changed: Self-Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Fieldwork0
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 Alteve0
Doran Ross: The Scholar of Akan Art0
Power Objects0
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember curated by Emma Lewis0
PLAN B, a Gathering of Strangers (or) This Is Not Working by Goldendean0
We Made It in Venice! But Then …? Reversing Notions of Center and Periphery0
Cloth is Money: Textiles from the Sahel0
Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip curated by Erica P. Jones and Elaine Eriksen Sullivan0
The Cloth That Eats Money: Ṣeghoṣen as a Symbol of Prestige0
Augure (2023) a film by Baloji and Augurism curated by Baloji and Elisa De Wyngaert0
Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges0
Pape Diop's Mystical Graffiti: A Twenty-Year Retrospective0
Full Circle: A Half Century of Friendship0
Changes Everywhere You Look0
Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture, 1970s-1990s0
Doran H. Ross: Generosity. Intellect. Passion.0
A Museum of Black Civilizations in the Contemporary World: In conversation with Hamady Bocoum0
Reconstituting Fragments0
Egúngún: Reminiscence of Colors, Dance, and Fun0
Oubour curated by Vanessa Brito and Suspended spaces and Femmes d'Alger dans leurs nouveaux appartements curated by Vanessa Brito0
A Conversation with Herbert M. Cole0
Continental Collaboration: Consulting, Institution Building, and Mentoring Across Africa0
For Professor Chief Simon Ottenberg0
Power and Play0
ACASA's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report0
Atta Kwami: September 14, 1956-October 6, 20210
The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture—Photographs from the Walther Collection0
Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations by Christopher L. Richards0
Sahel:Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara0
A Reconsideration of the History and Iconology of Yorùbá Equestrian Figure through Two Ifá Verses and the Ojúde-Ọ ba Festival0
Panoramas from the Periphery: Women's History Tapestries at Rorke's Drift0
Dancing Altars0
Carnival in Africa0
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography curated by Osei Bonsu0
Personal Reflections on Technologies and the Study of African Art0
Wellcome Dispersal at the National Museum of Ghana0
Exterminate All the Brutes directed by Raoul Peck0
Simon Ottenberg 100th Birthday Tributes from Nigeria0
“Knowledge” or “Progress?”: Do They Have to Be Mutually Exclusive?0
Translational Acts: Sculpture in the Nsukka School0
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
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 Uduma0
Collecting the Past, Facing the Future: Revealing Collections’ Connections Using the Archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library0
The Making of Museums in Nigeria: Kenneth C. Murray and Heritage Preservation in Colonial West Africa by Amanda H. Hellman0
What Is African Art? A Short History by Peter Probst0
Madame Zo: Bientôt je vous tisse tous (Soon I Will Weave You All) curated by Bérénice Saliou and Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung0
Teaching African Art in the Time of AI0
Ceremonial Bill-Hooks from Sierra Leone0
Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head0
documenta fifteen, kassel0
Egypt in/and Africa Exhibitions, Questions and Complexities in American Art Museums0
Simon Ottenberg: His Life and Legacy0
Remembering a Great Man: A Conversation with Kwame Akoto of Almighty God Art Works0
Simon Ottenberg's Contribution to Coast Salish Arts0
Reimagining Borders curated by Clairmont Chung0
Calabar Carnival0
Doran Hrothgar Ross Scholar, Trickster, Connoisseur0
An Ancient Terracotta Figure from Sierra Leone0
The “Black Art” Renaissance:African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents0
The Collapse of Time and Space in Aro Ikeji Festival0
A Transformative Gift0
Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 by Rebecca Zorach0
Before Nollywood: The Ideal Photo Studio curated by Amy Staples. Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits Originating curator: Selene Wendt; Smithsonian curator: Karen Milbourne0
Beyond Listening: Systemic Transformation in Fashion Studies and Fashion Collections0
The Swahili World0
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art0
Freddy Tsimba, Mabele Eleki Lola! The Earth, Brighter than Paradise0
Lagos and Its Representation in Visual Arts0
Do Masquerade: Reflections on History, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Bondoukou Region of Côte d’Ivoire and Beyond0
Lumumba in the Arts0
Honoring Doran Ross: The Beads, Body, & Soul Project & Beyond …0
Mapping the Earth's Embrace: Queer Life-Building in Mame-Diarra Niang's Éthérée0
Writing with Others0
TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair0
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts0
El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu0
The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections0
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 a0
Things Fall Apart at the Seattle Art Museum0
Excellent!: Textiles from Mali0
African Arts — Global Conversations0
Erratum: Textiles in the History of the History of African Art0
The Ritual Solidarity of Masked Processions in Calabar, Cameroon, and Cuba0
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
Pragmatism in Yoruba Art: Dada Areogun's Narrative Woodcarving as Cultural Stewardship0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: A Historiography0
William Fagaly March 1, 1938-May 23, 20210
Create to Free Yourself curated by Stephan Köhler0
Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel by Susan J. Curtis0
(Re)collecting and (Re)connecting Dispersed Material Culture from Lesotho and the Wider Region: A Proposed Project0
The Spiral and The Crossroads: The Dual Universalisms of Senegal's First Art Museum0
In Memory of Simon Ottenberg, Colleague and Friend0
That the House May Stand Again: Veranda Posts in Ọ̀yọ́ Palace0
Alternative curated by Jean Kamba0
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt0
Public Art Forms as Image and Cultural Identity of Indigenous Towns in the Òkè-Ògùn Region of Ọ̀yọ́ State, Nigeria0
Michael Armitage0
The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond0
New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 2: Coups, Pandemics, and Careers in African Art History0
Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa by Brian Valente-Quinn0
African Vernacular Symbols of Black Intersex Children in Sinethemba Ngubane's Installations (2007-2016)0
Early African Ivories0
Uli: The Colonial Archive as Decolonial Cultural Resource0
Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album0
Erratum: Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts0
Igshaan Adams: A Body of Work0
Contemporary Mythos of Spirits and Genies: A Conversation with Ibrahima Thiam0
Doran H. Ross0
Burke Museum Reflections0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction0
Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria0
One Who Dreams Is Called A Prophet by Sultan Somjee0
Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta0
Doran H. Ross: His Fabulous Fowler Years0
Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera0
Deep Ties: Cole and Ross, 1972–20200
Simon Ottenberg, the Man0
“Bring the Objects out of the Basement!”: The Wellcome African Collection at Manchester Museum0
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco: An Object-Based Study of Dutch Printing for the Colonial East African Market, 1876–19710
Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade0
The Lower Niger Bronzes: Beyond Igbo Ukwu, Ife, and Benin by Philip M. Peek0
L'Art de cour d'Abomey, le sens des objets by Gaëlle Beaujean0
Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime: Embodying Social Being curated by Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime and Basak Tarman0
Africa Fashion curated by Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray and curated by Ernestine White-Mifetu and Annissa Malvoisin0
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity0
Doran—The Elephant-in-Chief0
Traditional Igbo Architecture: A Symbolic Evaluation0
Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power0
Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa0
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