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Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces the curatorial team for its 37th edition
Iahra: Addressing Marine Ecology Through Industrial Materialities
The Convergence of African and Indian Lives in Kelly Sinnapah Mary’s Paintings
Transforming Memories of State Violence through Poetic Justice
Seed Archives: Celebrating African and Caribbean Design and Culture in London
Sugar Island: A Film that Lays Bare the Colonial Legacies between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Representing the Desires of the Community in the Work of Jeff Cán Xicay
The Bahamas Pavilion returns to the 61st Venice Biennale after a thirteen year hiatus
Manuel Tzoc: Art as Embodied and Relational Poetry
Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar wins 11th edition of Artes Mundi Prize
Daniela Ortiz: Art as a Practice of International Solidarity
Three Artists Redefining the Human-Plant Relationship in Martinique and Guadeloupe
From our inaugural series on Asian narratives in Latin America to the rewards of community-focused practices, these are some of our most read articles of last year.
2025 in Review
Yina Jiménez Suriel and Raphael Fonseca are the artistic directors for Iceland’s Sequences Biennial
MAM São Paulo announces Diane Lima as Curator of the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art
Bodies in a state of eruption: the performance and metamorphosis of Malu Avelar
MACAS amplía su colección de arte afropuertorriqueño
The Artists Forging Ecological Ties in Female Fugivity and Marronage
Caribbean Sounds: The Connective Possibilities of Radio
Confronting the Absence of Latin America in Conversations on African Diasporic Art
Macuxi Jaider Esbell: An Indigenous Life Cut Short by Epistemic Extractivism
Third Horizon curates a new Cinelogue program exploring decolonial cinema and liberatory imagination from the Caribbean
The Order of New Arts opens a new cultural space in the United States
Paris Noir: Pan-African Surrealism, Abstraction and Figuration
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces that Diane Lima will be the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, in 2026. The curatorial project, titled Comigo ninguém pode, will feature artists Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão.
Tadáskía Wins the 2025 K21 Global Art Award
Introducing the C& Cyclopedia
Irmandade Vilanismo: Bringing Poetry of the Periphery into the Bienal
Esperanza de León: Curating Through Community Knowledge
Librería Ireti, Havana, Cuba
Eva de Souza: Textile Experimentation as Poetic Protest
A k u z u r u: Art, Post-humanism and Healing
Not for Sale: How Black and Indigenous artists are rewriting the rules of the art market
Denis Maksaens: Glitch and Representation in the Caribbean
I Am Monumental: The Power of African Roots
The Entanglement of Migration, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonialism
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces list of participants for its 36th edition
Based in Trinidad and trained as a metalsmith, Thomas-Girvan blends sculpture, folklore, and material sensitivity to explore the layered legacy of maroonage. Her installations function as living archives and spiritual instruments, offering tools for remembrance and repair.
Flowing Affections: Laryssa Machada’s Sensitive Geographies
Jesús Hilário-Reyes: Dissolving Notions of Group and Individual
Andrea Chung: Dematerialization to Subvert Commodification
The Forgotten Asian Histories of Latin America
Duality as an Invitation to Multiplicity
Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso
What’s Behind Decolonial Movements in Brazil?
MASP inaugura novo edifício
MASF: An Art Museum that Connects Territory and Communities
Biophillick: Connecting Ancestries Through Technology
Atlantic Threads
The Ancestral Travels of Gladys Kalichini and Maritea Dæhlin
With sharp intention, Pi’s choreography invokes the vitality of people, objects, and histories of Black cultures while weaving narratives that span time and space. Our Managing Editor Marny Garcia Mommertz writes about her encounters with Ana Pi and Pi’s works.
Celebration and Resistance in Ventura Profana’s Films
MUNCAB inaugura novo espaço dedicado à arte afro-brasileira
C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop, New Orleans
Imagining perversely with Madeline Jiménez Santil’s Art
HOA Gallery is redesigned as a non-profit initiative
A Call to History
C&AL’s Highlights of 2024 You Might Have Missed
An Afro-Indigenous Reawakening: The Year in Review
Prince Claus Impact Award Presented to Six Artists from Diverse Disciplines
Caribbean Musicality in the Work of Valerie Brathwaite
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The World Tree [El árbol del mundo]
A Biennial that relates sound to space and bodies
We are thrilled to announce that the C& Collectors Box, until now only available to our Patreon members, is for sale!
Tessa Mars Links the Migratory Experience to Haitian Spirituality
Mercosul Biennial announces artists and spaces for its next edition
The Art of Translating and Vice Versa
Navigating Scarcity, Race and Religion in Cuban Photography
Bienal das Amazônias anuncia curadora de sua segunda edição
Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance
Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez
Afro-Indigenous Memory in the Work of Maria Lira Marques
Announcement of Second Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Congress
C& Artists’ Edition #5 Zohra Opoku
Amanda Carneiro: Curation That Operates Outside Dominant Systems
The inaugural MUNCH Award, which honours artistic freedom of expression is announced to be awarded to Rosana Paulino (b. 1967). Through a process of deliberation and discussion, the international jury collectively selected the artist for the inaugural award.
Poetry: Ruth Ige
Guido Llinás: the Incredible Story of an Afro-Cuban Artist in Paris
Sofía Salazar Rosales: A Poetic Journey Through the Material
Centro Cultural BanReservas and Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo x C& Critical Writing Workshop
Art and Identity in the Caribbean
Carnival, Body, and Territory
Johan Samboni: Rewriting Urban Histories
Introduction to the employee manual
Ismael David and the Foundations of Exu
Bienal das Amazônias: Portrait of a Complex Region
Caryl* Ivrisse Crochemar
Fidel Ernesto: Transitioning between the Digital and the Physical
William talks us through his recent programming at La Friche in Marseille, France. Prioritizing female-identified positions and influenced by his Afro-feminist perspective, the curator advocates for a "free aesthetic" rooted in the Black radical tradition to foster intersectional imagination and counter hegemonic figurations.
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Keila Sankofa: Fictionalizing Gaps of the Past
Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art
Conceptual Team for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Announced
Raily Yance and the Power of Everyday Objects
Nádia Taquary: Uncovering Afro-Brazilian Stories
60th Venice Biennale: National Pavilions
CCI x C& Critical Writing Workshop (ONLINE)
