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Boghosian's assemblages may be read on many levels. Says Everett McNear, director of exhibitions for the Arts Club of Chicago, where a large show of Boghosian's sculpture is currently on display: "But when you look at the combination of wood, metal or whatever he has used...
THE lights came on again in Lagos last week, ending a 30-month blackout imposed to protect the Nigerian capital from Biafran bombers that never appeared. Unaccustomed to the brightness, bats swooped screeching out of trees to seek darkness elsewhere, and pedestrians stepped neatly over rain ditches they had fallen...
It was and it wasn't, according to United Nations observers. What really happened was that 30 Egyptians crossed the canal opposite a U.N. post at the north end of the Ballah Cut. As near as could be determined in the darkness, the Egyptians peeked over the embankment on...
Modest & Monumental. The show makes clear what many people overlook -that Black Africa developed highly organized cultures and a sophisticated naturalistic art long before the Europeans arrived. A few works survive from this era, among them the superb bronze head of a queen mother from 16th century Benin, whose kings...
The well-paid Western pilots who flew into Uli for relief agencies did so at night to avoid marauding MIG-17s and Ilyushin-28 bombers, supplied to Nigeria by the Russians and flown by Egyptian pilots. Food planes from the Portuguese island of Sao Tome, Red Cross flights and gunrunners...