Essay

Some of the pioneering Women. (Clockwise) Safi Faye, during the shooting of

Celebrating Female Pioneers

Where are the Women Image-Makers in African History?

On the occasion of International Women's Day, our author Ethel-Ruth Tawe looks toward…

Sophie-Charlotte Opitz, Digital storm (2019)

Visions of Cultural Journalism

In a Hypermediatized World

Enos Nyamor explores the visions of cultural journalism in a hypermediatized world.

Numero Unoma, Reach for the stars, 112×76cm mixed media (acrylic, aquarelle & oil pastel) on cotton paper, 2017. Courtesy the artist and SMO Contemporary Art.

States of Mobility

The Politics of Belonging

Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…

Santu Mofokeng, Rister Mkansi in the family kitchen Dan location, Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa Black and white, 35mm film, 2007.

Santu Mofokeng (1956 -2020)

A Vision from a Mystical Source

The late Santu Mofokeng was one of the few artists who managed to…

Anthony Bumhira, Dhoyilisi Generation (2018), Detail. Mixed media, 190 x 180 cm. Photo courtesy of Zeitz MOCCA.

In Memoriam

Anthony Bumhira (1985–2020)

The Zimbabwean artist Anthony Bumhira passed away in January 2020. He was remarkable…

(From left to right) Ricardo Rodríguez Brey, Tomás Esson Reid, Zaida de Río, Joel Jovert Llenderosos, Ciro Quintana Gutiérrez, Neo Rauch, Klaus Killisch. As part of the exhibition Young Artists of the GDR and Cuba, 1989. Photo: Elfriede Schönborn. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde

C& Print Issue Another 89

Cultural Development Policy

In the last two decades of the GDR, the East German Center for…

Illustration by Edson Ikê, inspired by self-portrait images from Khadija Saye’s Venice Biennale series Dwelling: In This Space We Breat

C& Special Edition #Detroit

On Death, Loss, And Processing A (Black) Archive

Curator, writer, and artist Legacy Russell ponders the possibility of materializing a Black…

Mural paintings by Farid Belkahia (center) and Mohammed Hamidi (right), Asilah, Morocco. Both 1978. As published in Asilah: Premier moussem culturel, juillet/août 1978, exh. cat. (Casablanca: Shoof, 1978). Reproduced by permission of the photographer, Mohammed Melehi.

Murals of Asilah

The Moroccan Sea Town that Turns its Walls into Canvases

Since its rehabilitation in the 1970s, the Moroccan town of Asilah on the…

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1838, Atlas Elémentaire, 2015. Courtesy the artist.

A New Beginning

How Congo’s Culture Can Move Forward Learning from the Past

In the 1970s Congo (then Zaire) went through a cultural rejuvenation supported by…

Atul Bhalla, Looking for lost water IV, 2018. 54 x 26 inches (1371.6 x 635 mm), archival Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.

Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi on the Protection of Tap Water

The Possibility of Imagining Something New

His political involvement is fervent, his artistic work constantly investigating social and cultural…

Mujeres Muralistas. Latinoamerica. 1974. Roy Anderson paints on concrete. 20’ x 76’. Mission St. bet. 25th & 26th St, San Francisco.

Another 68!

The Black Female Artists Who Pioneered Alternative Art Spaces in Mexico

Despite the 1968 rise of protests against the regime in Mexico, narratives of…

Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton, Memorial Park in Oakland, CA. Photo credit: Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch

Another 68!

Decolonize 1968! How to shift the Perspective of Collective Memory

In this article Peggy Piesche writes about how much the liberation ideas of…


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