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Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2021

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New Art Prize

Entries open to Africa’s first Art Prize for Women: The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize

Gallery 1957 announced the launch of the first ever dedicated art prize for women artists living…

New Hire

Danielle A. Jackson Appointed Curator at Artists Space

Artists Space in New York announced that Danielle A. Jackson is joining the institution as Curator…

Installation View

Georges Adéagbo: La lumière qui fait le bonheur…

Beninese artist Georges Adéagbo has a solo show at KINDL Berlin. Curated by Kathrin Becker in cooperation with…

Okwui Enwezor's last exhibition

Black Grief and White Grievance

At New York’s New Museum, the last exhibition conceived by Okwui Enwezor functions as a thorough…

In Conversation

Catherine E. McKinley: ‘I have gathered these images, not just for me, but for you’

Ethel-Ruth Tawe talks to the author of The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years…

Inventing Your Own Game

The Abstract Thinking of Mildred Thompson

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the Western art world…

Kunstinstituut Melly

What’s at Stake in Decolonizing an Art Institution?

A Rotterdam art institute announces its new decolonial name. Will Furtado weighs in on some of…

Noldor Artist Residency

Ghana’s First Independent Arts Residency Announces Expansion and Fellowship Programs

Noldor reveals extensive expansion plans and welcomes Gideon Appah, Abigail Aba Otoo and Joshua Oheneba-Takyi as…

In Conversation

Euridice Kala: Rethinking the Archive

The Mozambican artist spoke to Sean O’Toole about her personal approaches to archives, memory, and the…

Preis der Nationalgalerie

Preis der Nationalgalerie Reveals Shortlist for 2021

Lamin Fofana and Sandra Mujinga are among the nominees for the 2021 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth Public Art Commission

Samson Kambalu and Ibrahim Mahama Are among Six Artists Shortlisted for Fourth Plinth Commission

The shortlist for the famous public art commissions consist of Ibrahim Mahama, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga,…

New Gallery

Mariane Ibrahim Opens a Paris Space

Alongside Chicago, Paris marks the second location and the debut in Europe of Mariane Ibrahim. The…

Celebrating Female Pioneers

Where are the Women Image-Makers in African History?

On the occasion of International Women's Day, our author Ethel-Ruth Tawe looks toward the continent to…

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Choreography of the Archipelago

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In Conversation with Desali

Bringing the Art Gallery to the Neighborhood Bar in the Periphery

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In Conversation with the Colectivo Moriviví, Puerto Rico

“Art Is a Way to Fight Back”

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C& Artists' Editions #2

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Thirty prints with hand-applied elements, each unique, signed and numbered

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White Label

How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters

Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BIPoC queer and trans…

Berlin Biennale

Kader Attia Appointed as Curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

For over two decades, Kader Attia has worked with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice.

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Frieze New York

Precious Okoyomon wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award

For Frieze New York 2021, Okoyomon will present a performance-activated installation conceived specifically for The Shed.

In Conversation with Maxwell Alexandre

“There is a Future Changing the Imagination of Subalterity”

The boy who was born in 1990 stepped into his inline “blades” for the first time…

Magiciens de la Terre

Racism: a bigger picture

The Black, Asian and White Racial Triangulation

A conversation with Walter Mignolo

“Decolonial aesthetics/aesthesis has become a connector across the continents”

Public Performance Festival in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Reflections on RAVY

Installation View

On Fait Des Dessins Dans La Terre

Eva Barois De Caevel curated a collective exhibition with works by Naomi Lulendo,…

Arts at CERN

Black Quantum Futurism Wins Collide Residency

Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips aka Black Quantum Futurism will complete the CERN…

In Memory of Rosemary Namuli Karuga and Kawira Mwirichia

The Legacies of Two Pioneering Female Artists Help Us Fill Kenya’s Historical Fractures

In the past few months two pioneering female Kenyan artists from different generations…

Black (Art) History Month

Looking at The Intersection of Time

While questions around time are currently occupying many, we rummaged through our archives…

In Conversation

Anta Helena Recke and Joana Tischkau on the German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

C& spoke to the two founders of a new institution dedicated to Black…

In Memoriam

Worldforming by Ghanaian Women in Architecture

The New Nsukka Art School: Between Continuity and Change

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Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2021

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Black Quantum Futurism Wins Collide Residency

The Legacies of Two Pioneering Female Artists Help Us Fill Kenya’s Historical Fractures

Looking at The Intersection of Time

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