(2008-05-31)

JOY GREGORY’S CINDERELLA TOURS EUROPE 1997–2001
Issue 21 of NKA features Cheryl Finley’s in depth piece of writing on ‘Cinderella Tours Europe’. The essay examines complexities of diasporic issues in relation to race, gender and the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and draws together the relationship between this work and Memory & Skin.
Cheryl Finley is an art critic, columnist and curator specializing in photography, African American art, cultural heritage tourism and the politics of memorialization.


SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE also featuring the work of Touhami Ennadre, Deborah Bell, Mcarthur Freeman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hank Willis, Yinka Shonibare and Kara Walker. NKA, the leading magazine dealing with critical issues on Contemporary African, African American, Diaspora, and international art and cinema. Placing contemporary African art in a global perspective, giving new critical perspectives on post-colonial criticism, internationalism, postmodernism; and on artists, exhibitions, institutions, publications, and events.