art museums - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

Meschac Gaba made conceptual rooms featuring gilded chicken legs to question the absence of a contemporary African one of these institutions. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these institutions, the first African contemporary one of which was founded in 2017 in Cape Town. Gaba’s installation was acquired by one of these institutions named the Tate Modern.

ANSWER: art museums [or art galleries; accept Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa; accept Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002]

[10m] Ibrahim El-Salahi, part of the Ḥurūfiyya movement incorporating this art form, was the first African modern artist featured in a Tate retrospective in 2013. Shirin Neshāt’s photos eschew stylistic conventions in this art form, which include naskh.

ANSWER: calligraphy [or khaṭṭ ʿArabī; accept khoshnevisi]

[10h] This artist said “it took a long time for the West to realize there is contemporary art in Africa” when commissioned to fill the Tate’s Turbine Hall. This Ghanaian artist reuses bottle caps for cloth-like pieces.

ANSWER: El Anatsui

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	50%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Stanford	Berkeley Past	10	10	0	20
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Lambert	Innovation Academy A	10	10	0	20
Yale	Amherst	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Squidward Community College	10	0	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	0	10	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	In the Mood for Buzz	10	0	0	10
Paddington in Peru (2024)	bingy academy	10	10	10	30
Penn State	Maryland	10	0	0	10
Pitt	RIT	10	0	10	20
UF A	UF C	10	0	0	10
USF	Valencia	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Toronto A	Waterloo Basic	10	10	10	30
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	Toronto B	10	0	0	10
McGill A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	0	0	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	10	10	30
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Waterloo Cloze	10	0	0	10
Innovation Academy B	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Milton	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Warwick C	10	10	0	20
Jason et al.	ALCU	10	0	0	10
Claremont	SGV Ventures	10	10	0	20
U[C]SD	Anderson et al.	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Boston College A	10	0	10	20
Harvard	MIT	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	Tufts B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
The cult of SGA	Madmen and Specialists	10	10	0	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Old and Young	10	0	0	10
UCF B	Florida Tech	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF B	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	SIUE	10	0	0	10
LSE B	Southampton	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10