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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Kader Attia: J’Accuse curated by Thomas Köhler and Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering, curated by Katja Reich4
Sufi Paintings in Kano and the Visual Representation of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse, 1995-20163
Professor Simon Ottenberg: Memoirs of Hon. Nnachi Enwo as narrated by his son, Dr. Otu Nnachi Enwo3
Shifting Paradigms and Practice: An Ethical Return from the Fowler Museum at UCLA3
Remembering Simon2
I Hold in My Hand…: Prestige, Rank, and Power2
Ethiopian Church Art: Painters, Patrons, Purveyors by Raymond Silverman and Neal Sobania2
Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts2
Errata to “Mapping the Earth's Embrace: Queer Life-Building in Mame-Diarra Niang's Éthérée” and “Collecting the Past, Facing the Future: Revealing Collections’ Connections Using the Archives of the We2
Nsibidi Knowledge: The Artistic Philosophy of the Ekpe Secret Society2
Motifs in Motion: Fes Belts (Ahzima) and Moroccan Design Innovation in the Mediterranean World2
Beyond the “Popular” versus “Serious” Criticism Binary: Towards New Histories of Black Art Criticism2
Building Continuity: Reflections on the ACASA Archival Project2
Unravelling Regional and Global Connections: Historical Kente and Related Textiles in Ghana, Togo, and Côte d'Ivoire1
Igshaan Adams: A Body of Work1
A Transformative Gift1
“We are Yoruba” or the Notion of African Art in Brazil1
Erratum: Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip1
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 Alteve1
We Made It in Venice! But Then …? Reversing Notions of Center and Periphery1
The Idea of Africa: Queer Visual Arts, Time, and the Postcolonial Archive1
Complex Geometries: Creativity, Motif, and the Study of Contemporary Handwoven Cloth from Côte d'Ivoire1
On the Origins of the Récades of the Kings of Dahomey1
Egypt in/and Africa Exhibitions, Questions and Complexities in American Art Museums1
Panoramas from the Periphery: Women's History Tapestries at Rorke's Drift0
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations0
Touched and Changed: Self-Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Fieldwork0
Erratum: Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts0
The Early Egyptian and Sudanese Collections of Sir Henry Wellcome0
Africa. Le collezioni dimenticate, curated by Cecilia Pennacini, Elena De Filippis, and Enrica Pagella, Africa. Le collezioni dimenticate, Elena De Filippis, Enrica Pagella, and Cecilia Pennacini, eds0
Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal by Ferdinand de Jong0
Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity: Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera0
For Professor Chief Simon Ottenberg0
Dressing Modern Like Our Mothers: Dress, Identity, and Cultural Praxis in Oromia by Peri M. Klemm0
Contemporary Mythos of Spirits and Genies: A Conversation with Ibrahima Thiam0
Translational Acts: Sculpture in the Nsukka School0
Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations by Christopher L. Richards0
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt0
Simon Ottenberg 100th Birthday Tributes from Nigeria0
The House that Khadambi Asalache Carved Khadambi Asalache (1935-2006)0
Dancing with Smoke: Géraldine Tobe in Conversation with Z.S. Strother and Toma Muteba Luntumbue0
Gatekeepers and Vengeful Spirits of the Ọ̀wọ̀ Past: Word and Act Made Visible0
Early Modern Raffia Textiles from West Central Africa: Reconsidering Technical Variety and Material Literacies of European Commentators0
The Lower Niger Bronzes: Beyond Igbo Ukwu, Ife, and Benin by Philip M. Peek0
Sokari Douglas Camp: Sensational Steel by Susan J. Curtis0
Africa Fashion curated by Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray and curated by Ernestine White-Mifetu and Annissa Malvoisin0
A Six-Decade Friendship0
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art0
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography: curated by Osei Bonsu and Cale Garrido0
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
Sane Wadu: I Hope So curated by Mukami Kuria and Angela Muritu0
Burke Museum Reflections0
Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime: Embodying Social Being curated by Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime and Basak Tarman0
A Conversation with Allen F. Roberts0
What is Their Secret? Artists from KNUST at American Universities0
The Spiral and The Crossroads: The Dual Universalisms of Senegal's First Art Museum0
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora: curated by Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with Michelangelo Corsaro0
Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects: curated by Sequoia Miller and Magdalene Odundo0
Teaching African Art in the Time of AI0
Kanga Cloths at Vlisco: An Object-Based Study of Dutch Printing for the Colonial East African Market, 1876–19710
An Ancient Terracotta Figure from Sierra Leone0
Traces, Clues, and Details: From Attribution to Visual Circulation: Painted Manuscripts from the Late Thirteenth to the Early Fifteenth Century and the Rule of the Ethiopian Kingdom0
Wellcome Dispersal at the National Museum of Ghana0
An Optimistic Survey of Southern African Art Scenes0
Headnotes, Fieldnotes, and Field Photos: Reflections on the Simon Ottenberg Archives0
African Vernacular Symbols of Black Intersex Children in Sinethemba Ngubane's Installations (2007-2016)0
A Conversation with Herbert M. Cole0
[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times curated by Paul Basu0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: An Introduction0
Embroidered Past, Imagined Future: Lucie Kamuswekera and the Violence in Eastern Congo curated by Sarah Van Beurden0
Kwame Nkrumah and the Artistic Nation: A Cultural History of Ghana's First Republic with Emphasis on Music0
Madame Zo: Bientôt je vous tisse tous (Soon I Will Weave You All) curated by Bérénice Saliou and Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung0
Reimagining Borders curated by Clairmont Chung0
Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade0
documenta fifteen, kassel0
Erratum: Textiles in the History of the History of African Art0
Pragmatism in Yoruba Art: Dada Areogun's Narrative Woodcarving as Cultural Stewardship0
Erratum: Dancing with Smoke: Géraldine Tobe in Conversation with Z.S. Strother and Toma Muteba Luntumbue0
Foreigners Everywhere: The 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa0
The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections0
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
One Who Dreams Is Called A Prophet by Sultan Somjee0
Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia0
Heroes: Principles of African Greatness by Kevin D. Dumouchelle0
Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa by Brian Valente-Quinn0
In Memory of Simon Ottenberg, Colleague and Friend0
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography curated by Osei Bonsu0
Textiles in the History of the History of African Art0
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
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
Things Fall Apart at the Seattle Art Museum0
That the House May Stand Again: Veranda Posts in Ọ̀yọ́ Palace0
Do Masquerade: Reflections on History, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Bondoukou Region of Côte d’Ivoire and Beyond0
“Bring the Objects out of the Basement!”: The Wellcome African Collection at Manchester Museum0
The Language of Beauty in African Art curated by Constantine Petridis0
El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu0
Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975 by Rebecca Zorach0
What Is African Art? A Short History by Peter Probst0
Simon Ottenberg's Contribution to Coast Salish Arts0
Lagos and Its Representation in Visual Arts0
SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa, curated by Drew Thompson0
Public Art Forms as Image and Cultural Identity of Indigenous Towns in the Òkè-Ògùn Region of Ọ̀yọ́ State, Nigeria0
African Textiles, Fashionable Textiles: A Historiography0
Changes Everywhere You Look0
Atta Kwami: September 14, 1956-October 6, 20210
The Collapse of Time and Space in Aro Ikeji Festival0
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
Some Reflections on the 19th Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial Symposium on African Art0
ACASA's Collaboration, Collections, and Restitution Best Practices Report0
(Re)collecting and (Re)connecting Dispersed Material Culture from Lesotho and the Wider Region: A Proposed Project0
“Knowledge” or “Progress?”: Do They Have to Be Mutually Exclusive?0
Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic by Matthew Francis Rarey0
The Art of Singing at Night: The Dogon Baja Ni Performance0
(De)Colonial Deal at the Musée National Des Arts, Rites, et Traditions: The Franco-Gabonese Heritage in Transit0
Tragedy of the Nation in Ndidi Dike's State of the Nation0
Pape Diop's Mystical Graffiti: A Twenty-Year Retrospective0
An Ancestral Shrine in Ọ̀wọ, Nigeria: The Ojú'pò of the Olúdásà as Visual Praise Poem0
Mapping the Earth's Embrace: Queer Life-Building in Mame-Diarra Niang's Éthérée0
Personal Reflections on Technologies and the Study of African Art0
I will spatter the sky utterly: Romauld Hazoumè: curated by Kymberly S. Newberry Mt. Holyoke College Museum of Art August 29, 2023–May 26, 20240
Uli: The Colonial Archive as Decolonial Cultural Resource0
Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage curated by Annabelle Priestley0
Reconstituting Fragments0
Sam Joseph Ntiro: Mapping the Path of a Pioneering Artist, Educator, Scholar, Diplomat, and Civil Servant0
Ledu: A Prestigious Yam Title and Its Roots (Middle Cross River Region, Nigeria)0
Alternative curated by Jean Kamba0
Expanded Range: Projects on African Material from Welcome's Historical Medical Museum0
Arts across Africa before 1600: An Ever-Growing Void?0
Collecting the Past, Facing the Future: Revealing Collections’ Connections Using the Archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library0
Create to Free Yourself curated by Stephan Köhler0
The House Was Too Small: Yorùbá Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond0
Practical Work: Sapeuses (Women Sapeurs) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo0
Simon Ottenberg: His Life and Legacy0
Augure (2023) a film by Baloji and Augurism curated by Baloji and Elisa De Wyngaert0
Artifacts from the Perspective of Effutu Masquerade Performance: An Aesthetic Album0
Professor Michael Rowlands: 1944–20250
Colonial Legacies: Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo by Gabriella Nugent0
Simon Ottenberg, the Man0
Some Early African Ivories in Venice: An Armlet and Spoon Rediscovered in the Collection of the Museo Correr0
Egúngún: Reminiscence of Colors, Dance, and Fun0
Breathing Room: Working Principles of Independent Art Spaces in African Cities0
Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember curated by Emma Lewis0
A Museum of Black Civilizations in the Contemporary World: In conversation with Hamady Bocoum0
Between a Torch and a Wing: Liberating Women in Two Public Sculptures in Johannesburg0
L'Art de cour d'Abomey, le sens des objets by Gaëlle Beaujean0
The Cloth That Eats Money: Ṣeghoṣen as a Symbol of Prestige0
Elephant and Leopard Symbols in the Cross River Region and Its Caribbean Diaspora0
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts0
Beyond Narratives: Interstitial Provenance as a Methodology for Transfers of African Arts0
Morphing Identity and Style in Contemporary Ghanaian Painting: Two Artists From Sekondi-Takoradi0
Gosette Lubondo: Imaginary Trip curated by Erica P. Jones and Elaine Eriksen Sullivan0
In Conversation with Tayo Quaye: Master Draughtsman and Artist Provocateur0
The Long View: Leadership at a Critical Juncture for “African Art” in America0
Oubour curated by Vanessa Brito and Suspended spaces and Femmes d'Alger dans leurs nouveaux appartements curated by Vanessa Brito0
The Making of Museums in Nigeria: Kenneth C. Murray and Heritage Preservation in Colonial West Africa by Amanda H. Hellman0
The Trials and Tribulations of Exile: The Ethiopian Story of Mary [Nägärä Maryam]0
Before Nollywood: The Ideal Photo Studio curated by Amy Staples. Iké Udé: Nollywood Portraits Originating curator: Selene Wendt; Smithsonian curator: Karen Milbourne0
“Such Base and Miserable Fanaticism”: The Matiabo, the Ten Years’ War, and the “Africanization” of Cuba0
Painting the Marvelous: Digital Humanities Approaches to Our Lady Mary Illuminations in Highland Ethiopian Täʾammǝrä Maryam Manuscripts before 16000
Exterminate All the Brutes directed by Raoul Peck0
Treasures of the Pharaohs: Exhibiting Ancient Egypt in Rome and Beyond0
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