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...world does not exist. At least not the world that radio and record stores would have you believe exists, where American music resides in one aisle and the music of the rest of the globe in another. Worlds collide, melodies mix, beats blend. Nigerian star Fela Kuti met with the Black Panthers before popularizing his radical Afro-beat music in the '60s; rocker Shakira was born in Colombia, but is launching a run at stardom from Miami in 2001. What follows is a look at Border Crossings--key moments when cultures combined to make fresh new music, from Bob Marley...
What does your bottom mean to you? What is the significance of your rear end? No, this is not Porn 101, but rather one of the many topics that the Nigerian painter and photographer Ike Udé explores in his exhibit “Beyond Decorum,” currently on display in the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center...
Much of Udé’s exhibit centers around the self portrait, as Udé, a Nigerian transvestite who describes himself as being educated by the night club scene of the 1980s, splashes his elaborately made-up face across mock-ups of movie posters and covers of famous magazines. The utilization of such staples of modern pop culture forces the observer to perceive the publications as independent works of art, modified by Ud?...
...There's the new school: the Strokes puts out its excellent debut, Is This It, on Sept. 25, and rock-hoppers Incubus deliver Morning View Oct. 23. And there's international rock: Colombian rockera Shakira unveils her first English-language disc Nov. 6, and Femi Kuti, son of Nigerian Afrobeat performer Fela, unleashes his potent Fight...
...softly lighted, temperature-controlled rooms of museums like the Met and the Louvre, antiquities are displayed with a respect uncommon in an African museum, where an exhibit may be dusty, unlabeled and all but forgotten. Moreover, the antiquities are safe. Frank Willett, a leading authority on Nigerian antiquities, has advised that disputed items in Western museums not be returned to Nigeria unless they can be properly protected. He compares the illicit-art trade to the drug trade. "The stimulus for all this, of course, comes from the West," he says. "If collectors and museums were not interested in acquiring these...