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Black Orpheus: Who Gets to Frame a Black Cultural Canon?
Public Fiction: How Art Drafts Realities
When We Gather: On the Not-Yet-Become in Lagos
The Aftercycle: Speculations on Responsive Touch and Restituted Objects
Water is Running: Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s Aquatic Archive
The Barbican Centre presents Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
‘In Minor Keys’ Schools at the 61st Venice Biennale
On Ancestral Recipes and Diasporic Foodways
AfterBiennales: The Lagoon of Nations at Venice
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
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
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
In a year marked by deep reflection and ambitious expansion, 2025 saw Contemporary And (C&) nurture an ever-evolving Cosmos of collaborations and projects, amplifying artistic perspectives of the Global Majority. Our magazines — C& Magazine and C& América Latina Magazine — remained vital platforms for critical inquiry and cultural exchange, publishing essays, features, interviews, and reviews that map new terrains. See a selection of our ‘most read’ picks below and head here to donate and continue championing our work.
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
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
Search differently – a living archive on contemporary art that insists on discoverability.
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
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
With a title derived from the poem “Da calma e do silêncio” by Conceição Evaristo, the 36th Bienal de São Paulo brings together 120 participants at the Bienal Pavilion and five more at Casa do Povo, proposing an urgent reflection on humanity, nature, and listening.
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 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
Until May 11, the exhibition Joie Collective – Apprendre à flamboyer (Collective Joy: Learning to Shine) is showing at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Curated by Amandine Nana, a young curator who joined the institution’s team in 2023, it paints a portrait of communal festivities as a tool for social justice.
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
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
Writer Vusumzi Nkomo highlights the solo exhibition The Other Side of Now by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, on view at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa. This exhibition presents films, sculptures, tapestry, and archival family photographs. Engaging with the transnational complexities left in the wake of colonial violence, it addresses the quieter narratives within Vietnamese, Senegalese, and Moroccan histories. While the exhibition has some weaknesses, it fosters a space for collective reflection and historical reclamation.
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 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
Transforming how audiences engage with 10+ years of C& content with Mellon Foundation support.
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?’
