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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
On Rematriation and Spiritual Reparations
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
This mobile museum places future-making at the core of Black institutional design, creating a structure that records and reimagines. The Museum of Black Futures holds gatherings, manifestations and sonic transmissions via their podcast series. In a series of five verses following their recent partnership which transformed the International Theatre Amsterdam space into their first Radical Space Station, founder Richard Kofi offers a meditation and manifesto shedding light on the Museum’s foundations.
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
Rest in/as Freedom: kiarita and Black Politics of Liberation
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
Brazilian artist Tadáskía has been awarded one of Germany’s most prestigious and well-funded art prizes for her site-specific installation.
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
Dignity Under Duress: Black Figuration Beyond the Global Art Market
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
An exhibition of eleven works by the late painter, arts organizer, and mythic personality Samson Mnisi focused on what might be called his spiritual abstraction, which decenters the discrete object. Rainmaker celebrated a specifically African interrogation of abstraction, writes Setumo-Thebe Mohlomi.
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 Wins the 2025 Joan Miró Prize
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
Reflecting on oral tradition, rhizomes, and opacity, C& Magazine’s new editor-in-chief, Ethel-Ruth Tawe, shares 3 notebook entries and an invitation.
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
Osei Bonsu: A Curatorial Lens on Photography as Identity and Tradition, Counter-Histories and Imagined Futures
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
Ana Nolasco explores César Schofield Cardoso’s work, examining Cabo Verde’s colonial past, memory, and the impact of global capitalism on identity.
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 Resilient Spirit of the Bamako Biennale
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
We are thrilled to announce that the C& Collectors Box, until now only available to our Patreon members, is for sale!
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?’
Tracing the Then and Now of Restitution Through Mati Diop’s Documentary Fantasy Dahomey
36th Bienal de São Paulo Reveals Title, Concept, Partnerships, and Visual Identity
An Exhibition Aims at Accessibility Against a Backdrop of Protest in Kenya’s Capital
ART X Lagos 2024 Reveals Theme, Gallery List and Program
Gaëlle Choisne is the Winner of Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Nkule Mabaso’s strong interest in networks and their potential for institutions and artists will elevate Norway’s only kunsthalle for contemporary photography.
