Salah Hassan co-curates African modernist artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag’s exhibition at the Serpentine, London
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag has forged a unique and expansive practice that is not defined by a singular style or movement.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Talking Art Series explores works of Ibrahim El-Salahi
The talk, entitled 'Pioneering Modernism: Ibrahim El-Salahi', will be led by Professor Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture in Africana Studies and Research Centre, and Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities, ICM,...
Prince Claus Fund Gallery - Ibrahim El-Salahi, David Hammons, Stanley Brouwn: Three Crossings
Conceived as a multi-sited exhibition, Three Crossings brings together works of three artists, each installed in a different Amsterdam venue. The exhibition focuses on each artist's experimentation with the genre "the artist's book." It also includes, in the cases of El-Salahi and Brouwn, other relevant pieces that broaden our appreciation of...
Art Jameel announced first ever joint winners of Jameel Prize 5
This is the first time the prize has been awarded to two finalists. Fady Jameel, President of Art Jameel, presented Mehdi and Marina with the prize at an evening ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) on Wednesday....The winner was decided by a panel of juries chaired by Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A. The juries are Salah...
Art, activism and change in Sudan
...According to Abdel Latif Dahir, the movement to use art to support change harkens back to the modernist art of The Khartoum School that developed in post-independence Sudan in 1960. By using visual art in activism, younger generations are continuing “that memory and legacy of standing up against totalitarian governments and military regimes,”...
Here Are the Lessons Top Museum Leaders Learned in 2020, From Adopting New Revenue Streams to Listening to the Quietest Voices
Museums Need to Expand Whom They Listen to—Fast.Roundtable 5 | Voices of authority: expertise, participation and inclusion in the museum of tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPseh2oZyxA&feature=emb_logoWell before the pandemic, museums were facing calls to address their inherent biases. Those calls became louder and more intent amid...
Ghana: The power of art to safeguard history and change the future
The role of artists in rewriting history and shaping economic development came to the fore at a recent ‘Global Ghana’ gathering organized by the Africa Institute in Sharjah, a city in the UAE.
Nka Nominated for Prestigious Award
Nka: Journal of Contemporary Art, volume 42–43, a double issue of the scholarly journal dedicated to the theme of Global Black Consciousness, was awarded runner-up for Best Special Issue by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals this past January.Under the coeditorship of Salah M. Hassan and Margo Natalie Crawford, this issue of Nka examines...
Art Jameel and the Victoria & Albert Museum announce the artists shortlisted for Jameel Prize 5
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | February 6, 2018 – The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), in partnership with Art Jameel, has announced the shortlist for the Jameel Prize 5, the international prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic tradition. Eight finalists have been shortlisted for the £25,000 (AED 128,000) prize,...
Ethiopian singers to open Africa Institute academic year in UAE
..."It is a globally oriented institution with a focus on the humanities and social sciences that will have a postgraduate studies programme offering both masters and PhD degrees with the aim of training a new generation of critical thinkers in African and African diaspora studies.”Previous musicians who have performed at the annual opening...
Design for Sharjah's Africa Institute new campus unveiled
"The geographical position of the UAE, the institute director Salah M. Hassan noted, makes it a natural site from which to understand the crossroads of migration and trade that traverse the Arabian Sea.'This area has had a host of different types of population mixing and linkages with Africa,' says the scholar, who is also a professor at Cornell...
Exploring the Modern Art movement of Sudan
After exploring the Surrealist movement in Egypt and some of its leading proponents, the Sharjah Art Foundation this autumn moves on to examine the “Modern Art movement in Sudan and the politics surrounding it”.The co-curators for the three exhibitions exploring this theme are Shaikha Hoor Al Qasimi, director of Sharjah Art Foundation, and Dr...
Opening Season Continues With Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Talk And Via Sophiatown Show This Month
The first season of Louvre Abu Dhabi's public programmes continues with a lecture by Professor Salah Hassan about the pioneering Modern artist Ibhrahim El-Salahi on 18 April and South African Band Via Sophiatown (19-20 April) at the museum.With the participation of future neighbouring museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi together with Louvre Abu Dhabi...
A Tribute to Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019)
After several years in Karachi developing artistic and research projects, I [Iftikhar Dadi] returned to the US in 1998 to work on a PhD in art history with Salah Hassan at Cornell University. Hassan and Okwui Enwezor were among the founders of the journal Nka, which remains a leading publication on contemporary African and diaspora art. Nka began...
The Cultural Frontline - Sudan: Art and political change
Despite Sudan once being at the forefront of African cinema, only eight feature films have been made in the last 70 years.
Active Forms: The 2018 Sharjah March Meeting
...One of the Meeting's most impassioned talks occurred on the second day in a discussion between Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University, and Manthia Diawara, Professor and Director, Institute of African American Affairs at New York University. Hassan began by introducing...
Enwezor, N’Dour, others reopen Sharjah’s Africa Hall
...Dr. Salah Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University said the newly rebuilt Africa Hall is hoped to revive the golden era of the building in the 1970s and 1980s when it served as the hub of cultural events that included literary, theatrical and musical performances, and poetry reading...
Sharjah Biennial to present Okwui Enwezor's final exhibition in 2021
...Enwezor [ the late Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019)] conceived the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB15), entitled Thinking Historically in the Present, as a platform to reflect on the past fourteen editions of the Biennial and to consider the future of the biennial model.Sharjah Art Foundation director Hoor Al Qasimi well help realize the...
Professor Dadi Recipient of $238,000 Getty Foundation Grant - Connecting Art Histories
Professor Iftikhar Dadi is the recipient and Principal Investigator of a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative. This grant will support a series of research seminars titled Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia. The grant has been awarded through the Institute of Comparative...
Sharjah’s Africa Hall reopens Sept. 25, says Hoor Al-Qasimi
...This center for African and African Diaspora studies will also examine the historical and contemporary linkages between Africa and the Arab Gulf region, demonstrating that geographic proximity and economic and cultural exchanges over millennia have long connected Africa and the Arab Gulf. Conceived as a research-based think-tank and a...
Ricardo Wilson on his new book, The Nigrescent Beyond
Big PictureIn The Nigrescent Beyond I explore the psychic vanishing of blackness within the collective imagination of the Mexican nation and think through how this work might nurture related discourses within the field of a United States–facing black studies. To get a sense of this vanishing in the Mexican context one could read Brian Hamnett’s...