Contemporary African Art Since 1980: Oct 27

Tuesday, October 27, 6pm
NYPL: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (Room 227)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu's Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists, working either in or outside of Africa. Its focus is on historical transitions: from the end of the 1960s postcolonial utopias during the 1980s to the geopolitical, economic, technological, and cultural shifts incited by globalization. Enwezor, a leading curator and scholar of contemporary art, and Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of Art and Archeology and African American Studies at Princeton University, are editors of NKa Journal of Contemporary African Art.

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