Essay

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.

Contemporary Black Discourses

Afrofuturism and Afropessimism both seek to step outside of limiting narratives and invite self-awareness into the conversation around Black lives.

Ecologies

Ama Josephine Budge on how to resist climate colonialism through a capacious, trans-temporal Blackness.

Black Womanhood

The artist visualizes her inner dialogues with a creative force that is challenging the white-cis male-dominated Dutch art world.

Rencontres de Bamako – Biennale Africaine de la Photographie

The distinguished author looks back on a year of turmoil: on coups, wars and embargos, but also on artistic connection with the world.

Looking Back

While in Istanbul Baldwin used fierce artistry to unmask the USA’s façade as the custodian of freedom and democracy, explains curator Gürsoy Doğtaş.

Kabelo Malatsie with Robert Machiri

Arts Collaboratory commissioned Kabelo Malatsie to respond to their network and the outcome is a sonic essay with Zimbabwean artist Robert Machiri.

Julie Mehretu

Rose Jepkorir spoke to the New York-based artist to dive into her work that explores the strange in between places through abstraction.

Dekoloniale Berlin

One hundred and twenty-five years after it took place, the “Colonial Village” at…

Artist Portrait

Nakitende Sheila twists, stitches, and burns as she experiments with natural textures and…

C& Center of Unfinished Business

Will Furtado argues that indigenous knowledge has always held the solution to ecological catastrophe that is fueled by placing the human above all.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…