ARCHIVE: Olu Oguibe / Modern Painters / June 2007

Olu Oguibe, April 2007. Photo: Matt Ducklo

"Frankly, I think that we've gone past the age of African group highlights, whether continental or regional. People must begin to show confidence in the ability of individual African artists to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers on the global stage."                 

--Olu Oguibe

ARCHIVE: Wangechi Mutu / Art in America / June 2007

Wangechi Mutu, Yo Mama, 2003, mixed mediums on two sheets of paper, 59 by 85 inches overall.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.

In June 2007, the cover of Art in America magazine was preternatural in pink thanks to Wangechi Mutu's mixed media composition Yo Mama. The work was used to promote the feature "Worldwide Women" which examined the Brooklyn Museum exhibit Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art. The article by Eleanor Heartney described the show as "[exploring] the range of artworks being made internationally by women born since 1960 -- and the variety of experiences they reflect."

ARCHIVE: Chris Ofili / Art In America / January 2000

In January 2000, a detail of Chris Ofili's 1999 painting Third Eye Vision (comprised of acrylic, collage, glitter, resin, map pins and elephant dung on canvas) vaingloriously stretched across the cover of Art In America magazine. In the accompanying article "Ofili's Glittering Icons" art critic Lynn MacRitchie wrote: "Ofili works his themes over and over again. In the process, the street-smart references he so much enjoys sampling from urban culture are being gradually incorporated into a more formal vocabulary which seems to be taking the work forward into its next phase."