Tag: Okwui Enwezor

• New Museum Online Event: Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work

  

  Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) was an internationally renowned, Nigerian-American curator, art theorist and political scientist, whose scholarship and portfolio of major projects were the focus of a recent discussion: “Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work,” hosted online by the New Museum, New York, 21 January 2021.

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 26, 2021

  Art – Politics, Contemporary Art, Curating, Germany, New York, Nigeria, Online Event

  Documenta 11, New Museum, Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale

• Twenty Pound Spectacle: Brett Bailey (Exhibit B)

  The following article written by art historian Yvette Greslé presents a very detailed, beautifully written and carefully considered critique of Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B’ project – which also (in turn) cites curator and academic Okwui Enwezor’s well-informed words of wisdom: “Despite the sincerity of the artists who have brazenly maintained a relationship in their work with…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 12, 2014

  Curating, Exhibitions, Racism, South Africa

  ‘Human Zoo’, Boycott, Exhibit B, Okwui Enwezor, Stereotyping, Yvette Greslé

• From Mancoba and Sekoto to Mslaba and Sibande: Johannesburg’s Post-Apartheid Emergence as an Art World City

  

  “The embarrassment that my presence caused – to the point of making me, in their eyes, some sort of ‘Invisible Man’ or merely the consort of a European woman artist – was understandable, as before me, there had never been, to my knowledge, any black man taking part in the visual arts ‘avant-garde’ of the…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 19, 2014

  Africa, Art, Contemporary African Art, South Africa

  Anti-apartheid, Anti-racism, Biennale/Biennial, COBRA Art Movement, Dumile Feni, Ernest Mancoba, Gallery MOMO, Gerard Sekoto, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Mary Sibande, Okwui Enwezor, William Kentridge