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Aggregates of Plunder: Ndidi Dike’s Rare Earth Rare Justice
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Frames Printmaking As A Relay Process
Seed Archives: Thabo Weaves a Cocoon for Listening
Tanka Fonta wins the Wi Di Mimba Wi Prize 2026
Olukemi Lijadu: Feedback, Friction and Black Atlantic Music
Melvin Edwards (1937–2026)
Moving Parts: Yinka Bernie's Sonic Bridge Across Lagos
Naafia Naahemaa: What Appears Solid Is Already In Motion
Pre-Sale! C& Artists’ Editions #6: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
Sounding the Ocean: Spiral Networks of Remembrance and Elation
Artist-Led Organizations in Focus At The 61st Venice Art Biennale
Notes on Editorial Dis/Continuities
In collaboration, C& selects a series of podcast episodes by The Museum of Black Futures.
The Olympia Effect: Who Gets Credit for Sexual Liberation On/Off Screen?
The Deconstructive Lens of Ngadi Smart: From Drag to Climate Change
We're Still Here: Thero Makepe’s Visual Jazz
C& Highlights of 2025
The Museum of Black Futures
The Re:assemblages Symposium: How Might We Gather Differently?
Nnena Kalu wins Turner Prize 2025
On Ghosts and The Moving Image: Edward George’s Black Atlas
Caribbean Sounds: The Connective Possibilities of Radio
Werewere Liking: Of Spirit, Sound, and the Shape of Transmission
Black Canadian Print Cultures: Of Quiet and Enduring Legacies
On Exile, Amulets and Circadian Rhythms: Practising Data Healing across Timezones
This article discusses works by the U.S. American multidisciplinary artist of Dominican decent kiarita as visual explorations of the political potential of rest. Synthesising various branches of Black studies and decolonial thought, rest is positioned as a means of grieving the past and present trauma of racial capitalism, of evading and ‘un-doing’ its authority over one’s mind and body, and of conceiving an alternative future.
Paris Noir: Pan-African Surrealism, Abstraction and Figuration
Coming Soon: APRIA Journal Issue #7 — Exhaustion
Maktaba Room: Annotations on Art, Design, and Diasporic Knowledge
Introducing the C& Cyclopedia
Tadáskía Wins the 2025 K21 Global Art Award
Zimbabwe Pavilion Announces “Second Nature | Manyonga” for Venice Art Biennale 2026
The Art of Dialogue: Living Archives, Memory and Practice
A Collector’s Guide to São Paulo
Steve McQueen: The Bassline As Sonic Intelligence
Naomi Beckwith Unveils Core Artistic Team for documenta 16
Mapping Literary Circuits with Bao Books From Tunis to Cairo
Mangrove Ecologies: Grounded Forms of Questioning in the Art/World
The global market embraced art from Africa—but is that alone enough to sustain it? Writer Elikem Logan calls for a shift away from reliance on the altruism of Western institutions and towards an art industry beyond markets.
Sampling the City: Tristany Mundu’s Cypher with Linha de Sintra
Paula Nascimento and Angela Harutyunyan Announced as Curators of Sharjah Biennial 17
Sudan Art Archive Aims to Reclaim a Canon from Afar
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Announces List of Participants for its 36th Edition
Samson Mnisi: A Master Posthumously Receives His Due
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku Wins 2025 Ellipse Prize Focused on Ghana’s Emerging Art Scene
Image Interventions in "The African Gaze"
Venice Biennale 2026 Will Follow Late Koyo Kouoh's Vision
‘To Treat Process with Care and Intention’: Favour Ritaro Carries Forward Important Curatorial Legacies
Lindokuhle Sobekwa Wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025
Koyo Kouoh (1967 – 2025)
Dispatches from Tint Library’s London Pop-Up
Kapwani Kiwanga receives the prestigious award in recognition for her powerful, research-based installations exploring history, power, and social structures.
FESPACO 2025 Made Space for the Ceremony of African Cinema
Kombo Chapfika and Uzoma Orji: What Else Can Technology Be?
Imagining a Future for the Arts in the US
‘Apprendre à Flamboyer’: Collective Joy in Practice at Palais de Tokyo
Stewarding an Antidisciplinary Practice
Ethel-Ruth Tawe to Lead C& Magazine as Editor-in-Chief
Examining De/Colonial Traces Through Colonial Collections
Thinkers and Titles: On Black German Literary Tradition
AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions)
Ellipse Prize 2025 Announces Finalists of 5th Edition
ROM Announces Tandazani Dhlakama as Curator of Global Africa
In Conversation with Lubaina Himid: The Artist Set to Represent the UK at Venice Biennale 2026
C&’s Mearg Negusse dives into the subjects at the heart of the recently opened ‘A World in Common’ exhibition at C/O Berlin, with curator and writer Osei Bonsu. The exhibition consists of 3 chapters and presents 23 African and African diaspora artists. The show initially opened at Tate Modern in London where Bonsu is a curator of International Art.
Dr. Zoe Whitley Named Curator of Art Toronto Focus Exhibition
Ladji Diaby’s Sampling Sensibilities Are Material and Time-Bending
Modupeola Fadugba Wins The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2025
On History and Fiction: Tuan Andrew Nguyen's Cinematic Memory Work
Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso
Kampala Calling: The African and Diaspora Artists Flocking to Uganda
Unidigrazz: A Collective Practice and a Holding Place
To Spring From Salted Earth
The Secret Apothecary
Shades of Green
AWU Library
C& Highlights of 2024
The continent's leading photography festival is a rallying cry for African self-reliance and a platform for new voices, writes Obidike Okafor.
Naomi Beckwith Appointed Artistic Director for documenta 16
Maheder Haileselassie Tadesse Wins Main Prize at Rencontres de Bamako
, so I dream: An Ode to Stuart Hall
C& Builds a Living Digital Archive
Bring Home your C& Collectors Box!
Prince Claus Impact Award Presented to Six Artists from Diverse Disciplines
Koyo Kouoh Has Been Announced as Curator of Venice Biennale 2026
MACAAL in Marrakech Will Reopen in 2025 After Undergoing Significant Renovations
Massoud Hayoun: Making Art To Say Things Out Loud
Still a Powerful Platform for Critical Dialogue around Art, Ecology, and History
Agnès Brezephin Awarded the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at This Year’s Dakar Biennale
Odur Ronald: ‘Why is it easier for raw cotton to reach European capitals than for Ugandan people to travel anywhere?’
Can the French restitution of some of Benin’s royal treasures constitute a new beginning? Olivia Gilmore explores this question alongside Mati Diop’s new film, Dahomey.
