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This is a record of my publications, mostly scholarly, some other. In all cases, I add links as I am able to provide the content for free. I want to make as much available as I can so you can keep up with the global art world. If you need something that you see here and can’t find a copy, please email me from the Contact page and I’ll help track it down for you!

  • Book Chapters

“Museums, Masks and the Missing Women of Sande” in Frima Fox Hofrichter and Midori Yoshimoto (eds) Women, Aging, and Art: A Cross-cultural Anthology Bloomsbury, 2020

“Chapter 16: African Art” in ART: A Brief History, 7th Edition. Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2020. pp 428-451

“Chapter 14: African Art to the 16th Century” in Art History, 6th Edition. Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2016. pp 413-439

“Chapter 29: African Art from the 16th-21st Centuries” in Art History, 6th Edition. Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2016. pp 895-919

  • Articles

“Murid Methodology: Moustapha Dimé’s figurative sculptures” African Arts 53:4 (Winter 2020): 46-57

“Museums, Masks and the Missing Women of Sande” African Arts 53:3 (Autumn 2020): 72-83

“La Grande Danse by Moustapha Dimé in Local and Transnational Encounters” Third Text 30:3-4 nos. 140-141 (2016 London): 219-237

“Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution—http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/eepatop.htm” Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. 30:1 (March 2014): 106-109

“The Phenomenon of Récupération at the Dak’Art Biennale” African Arts. 42:3 (Autumn 2009): 8-9

“Bodily Presence: The Reclamation of the Figure in Moustapha Dimé’s Late Works” Critical Interventions. 1 (July 2007): 71-87

  • Encyclopedia entries

“Allan deSouza (b. Nairobi, Kenya 1958, works San Francisco, CA)” artist entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

“Fatimah Tuggar (b. Kaduna, Nigeria 1967, works USA)” artist entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

“Samuel Fosso (b. Kumba, Cameroon 17 July, 1962; works Bangui, Central African Republic and Paris, France)” artist entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

“Récupération” subject entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

“Zarina Bhimji (b. Mbarara, Uganda 1963, works London, UK)” artist entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

“Zanele Muholi (b. Umlazi, Durban, South Africa 1972; works Johannesburg, South Africa)” artist entry. Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press) August 2015

  • Reviews

“Book Review of Déborder la Négritude: Arts, politique et société à Dakar” edited by Mamadou Diouf and Maureen Murphy. African Arts (2021) 54 (3): 91–93

“Book Review of Art World City. by Joanna Grabski (University of Arizona). Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2017.”  College Art Association Reviews caareviews.org. November 2019 http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3610#.XrLTkBNKjUI

“Book Review of Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power and Identity c. 1300. by Suzanne Preston Blier (Harvard University). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.” College Art Association Reviews caareviews.org. 30 June, 2016 http://www.caareviews.org/reviewers/2320

“Market Imaginary: “Everything in Colobane is Installation”” Review of Market Imaginary, a film by Joanna Grabski. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 35 (2014): 134-5

“Book Review: Kristina Van Dyke, ed. African Art from The Menil Collection. Houston: Menil Foundation, 2008, Distributed by Yale University.” African Studies Review. 53:1 (April 2010) 239-241

“Book Review: Edna G. Bay. Asen, Ancestors and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.” African Studies Review. 52:1 (April 2009): 217-219

“Picasso’s Passion” Book Review of Peter Stephan. Picasso’s Collection of African and Oceanic Art. Munich: Prestel, 2006. African Studies Review. 50:2 (September 2007): 276-278

“The Choreography of Ethnology” Book Review of Francesca Castaldi. Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. African Arts H-Net. Published by H-AFRARTS@h-net.msu.edu (June 2006) (2521 words)

  • Exhibition Catalogues

 “Ursula Schneider: Earth, Air, Water.” In Mikhail Zakin Gallery – Ursula Schneider earth, air, water. Demarest, NJ: The Art School at Old Church, 2013 http://issuu.com/mzgallery/docs/ursula_schneider_catalog

“Pas Deux…Yinka Shonibare’s Spectacular Doubling of a Single Variation.” In Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Odile and Odette. Atlanta, GA: SCAD ACA Gallery, January 2008. pp 1-8

“African Art and Its Collectors.” In Savannah Collects African Art (exhibition catalogue). Savannah, GA: Pei Ling Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, August 2007. pp 1-4

“Interview with the Artist” in Visionary Landscapes: The Glasswork of Josh Simpson. Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, July 1998

“A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean” in Wind, Waves and Sail. Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, March 1997

  • Cited in

Kilonzo, Kiagho B.  “Integrating East Africa Through Arts and Culture: A Report of the EASTAFAB Tours and Exhibitions.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. (2019) 5:2, 128-143.

Lubell, Sam. “Architects Discover Emoji, and Guess What, They Aren’t all Happy About it” WIRED. Design 2 May (2017) https://www.wired.com/2017/05/changiz-tehrani-emoji-architecture/

Grabski, Joanna. ART World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar. Bloomington: Indiana U Press, 2017

Vincent, Cédric. “« Hot commodity ! » Comment l’art africain travaille à être contemporain.”  Cahiers d’études africaines [online], 223, 2016. http://journals.openedition.org/etudesafricaines/18422

Akpang, Clement Emeka. “Found Object, Recycled Art, Readymade or Junk Art? Ambiguity in Modern African Art.” Art and Design Studies. 12 (2013):41-48

Clager, Hannah. 2013. The Dak’art Dilemma – Curating Vision Beyond Biennial Politics In the Dakarois Artistic Landscape. https://doi.org/10.17615/2rdg-tn79

Grabski, Joanna. “Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence.” In Grabski and Magee, eds African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013

Schreiber, Hanna. Koncepcja “sztuki prymitywnej” Odkrywanie, oswajanie i udomowienie Innego w świecie Zachodu. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2012

Grabski, Joanna.“Urban Claims and Visual Sources in the Making of Dakar’s Art World City.” Art Journal. 68:1(Spring 2009):6-23

Harrow, Kenneth W. Trash: African Cinema from Below. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013

Wemegah, Rolland, Amenyo Dzikunu-Bansah, and Musah Abubarkar Ibrahim Dey. “Mastering the skills of Assemblage Art: Challenges of Sculpture Students of Bolgatanga Polytechnic.” Journal of Education and Practice 5, no. 31 (2014): 108-118