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In conversation with C&, sculptor Ndidi Dike traces the long grammar of extraction, from King Leopold’s rubber quotas to the cobalt mines powering the global green economy. She asks about the people who bear the cost of progress, for whom justice is a rare event. Dike’s exhibition, Rare Earth Rare Justice, curated by Jeanette Pacher, is on view at the Secession, Vienna, until May 31, 2026, before traveling to Färgfabriken, Stockholm, and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.

In this experimental text, author Sherae Rimpsey responds to the poetics and interiority she experienced in a major Paris exhibition of works by African, African American, and Caribbean artists.

The 29th Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, known as FESPACO from its French acronym, was held under the theme of "African Cinemas and Cultural Identities" in February and March 2025. Sharing reflections and excerpts of their visual diary on film, writer Makella Ama explains why FESPACO is distinctive and culturally significant.

The Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York will lead the next edition of documenta to be held from June 12 to September 19, 2027.