AFRICAN ARTS

Battles for Hearts and Minds: The Nogent Mosque During World War I

African Filmmaking: Five Formations ed. by Kenneth W. Harrow (review)

Universal and Sublime: The Vessels of Magdalene Odundo

Barbara Winston Blackmun 1928–2018

Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa

William Kentridge: Process as Metaphor & Other Doubtful Enterprises by Leora Maltz-Leca, and: Awakenings: The Art of Lionel Davis ed. by Mario Pissarra (review)

Beyond Borders: Global Africa curated by Laura de Becker (review)

Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897–1964 , by Sarah Longair , New York : Routledge , 2015 . 265 pp.; 53 b/w ill., table, appendix, bibliography, index. $145.00, cloth, $57.95 ebook

El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Vogel (review)

We Don’t Need Another Hero: 10th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (review)

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael A. Gomez (review)

The Afrofuturist Village: Masiyaleti Mbewe (review)

Ezio Bassani 1924–2018

A Tree Cannot Make a Forest: Looking Inward, Reaching out in African Art Studies

Paper Beads on the Move: Mobilizing Trajectories and Subjectivities to Shape Contemporary Art In Uganda

Condition Report 3: Art History in Africa: Debating Localization, Legitimization and New Solidarities

Arts of Global Africa (review)

Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths curated by Tom Joyce , Allen F. Roberts , Henry J. Drewal , William J. Dewey , and Marla C. Berns UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History June 3–December 30, 2018

Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis curated by Patrick A. Polk , Roberto Conduru , Sabrina Gledhill , and Randal Johnson Fowler Museum , UCLA September 24, 2017–April 15, 2018

I Could Be Happy with You, if You Could Be Happy with Me: The Playful Inventions of a Visionary Headrest Artist from the Msinga Region of Kwazulu-Natal

A Wider Loom? French Colonial Preoccupations with West African Weaving

African Visual Cultures and Colonial Histories: An Expanding Field

Liberia, 1931–33: The Collections of Alfred J. Tulk curated by Christopher B. Steiner Fairfield University Art Museum , Fairfield, Connecticut September 14–December 14, 2018

The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana , curated by Roslyn A. Walker , Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas, TX April 15–August 12, 2018

Fragile Legacies: The Photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge by Amy J. Staples, Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, Bryna Freyer (review)