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A k u z u r u: Art, Post-humanism and Healing

Rooted in ecological awareness and post-human perspectives, the artist’s practice addresses humanity’s role in Earth’s suffering.

What’s Behind Decolonial Movements in Brazil?

Our editor-in-chief analyzes sociocultural changes in the Brazilian art field and highlights the central contribution of Black women thinkers.

Bienal das Amazônias anuncia curadora de sua segunda edição

A equatoriana Manuela Moscoso, atual Diretora Executiva do Centro de Pesquisa e Alianças em Arte, em Nova York, foi selecionada para fazer a curadoria da próxima Bienal das Amazônias.

Mãos: 35 anos da Mão Afro-Brasileira

The exhibition revisits the iconic "A Mão Afro-Brasileira", held at MAM 35 years ago, and originally curated by Emanoel Araujo.

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Hélio Menezes assume a Diretoria Artística do Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo

Completando 20 anos em 2024, Museu Afro Brasil renova sua diretoria artística, iniciando um novo momento para a Instituição.

The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Restitution and Internal Colonialism

The historic return of Tupinambá cloak to Brazil highlights constant struggle against colonialism and for restitution.

Imagining Queer Futures with Martín Wannam

A conversation with the visual artist and educator, whose two works about discrimination and queer resistance are on view at the 23nd Paiz Art Biennial.

Art and Community against Extractivism

The Colectivo Cherani (Cherani Collective) in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, is using art to create community and protect public space.

Cinthia Marcelle: Paper Barriers

In her solo exhibition in Germany, the Brazilian artist invites us to reflect on social and institutional rules.

Nova Bienal de Artes irá promover artistas da Amazônia Legal

Primeira edição será realizada em Belém do Pará e tem curadoria de Keyna Eleison, Sandra Benites e Vânia Leal.

Marlou Fernanda: Foregrounding the Inner Self through Art

The Curaçao-born Rotterdam-based artist goes from painting, to set design and performance to express her complex inner self.

Julien Creuzet will represent France at the Venice Biennale 2024

The French-Caribbean visual artist and poet will represent France at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Wendy Nanan: Art as a Place of Freedom to Define Oneself

The artist from Trinidad and Tobago talks to us about Creolization and how she found her voice as a multicultural woman in the Caribbean.

Diego Araúja: For a time of the expanding body

An essay about the artistic oeuvre of the Bahian artist who uses corporality to reconfigure notions of time and Afro-diasporic memory.

Sound Botanica

This solo exhibition showcases pieces that address migration from El Salvador to the United States through spiritual and physical healing practices.

Sugarcane in Caribbean Art

Contemporary artists examine the ambiguous role of sugarcane in the history of the Caribbean.

Collage as Reaffirmation of Identities

Domitila de Paulo, Alberto Pereira, and Moara Tupinambá talk about why collage is central to their works.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Named New Director of Renowned Berlin Arts Institution

Founder and Artistic Director of SAVVY Contemporary, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is appointed the new director at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

“We Also Have Something to Show—in Our Ways, with Our Rules”

Jaider Esbell, an artist and writer of Makuxi origins, talks about his artistic production and the importance of artivism.

Debating Memories with Several Selves

Ugandan multimedia artist Immy Mali explores personal and postcolonial realities

Taking Control of Your Own Story

A new art space in Loíza, Puerto Rico, establishes creative links between the African Diaspora and Africa. A conversation with Marta Moreno Vega, one of its founders.

Smiling In the Face of the World's End

Keyna Eleison resumes her column in 2020 with a warning: a weary text to be sung aloud.

The Body As Emotional Amplifier

A journey through the artistic trajectory of the French artist with roots in Martinique.

Memories in a Cardboard Box

Traveling initiative shatters the museum concept and facilitates exchange of experiences in Maré favela.

A View From the Other Side of Things

The “Salón Nacional de Artistas” in Bogotá explores different views on contemporary art inside and outside Colombia.

MASP recebe doação de arquivo de Rubem Valentim

Material foi oferecido pelo Instituto Rubem Valentim, instituição criada para divulgar e proteger a obra do artista baiano

Venice Biennale: Caribbean Identity

Our first impressions of the Antigua and Barbuda, and Grenada pavilions at the 58th Venice Biennale.

Expanding Political Imagination Through South-South Collaboration

Conversations in Gondwana is a project that connects pairs of artists from countries of the Global South.

Raquel van Haver – Spirits of the Soil

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows murals that emerge from the artist's experiences with marginalized communities around the world.

Beatriz González in Berlin - Retrospective 1965-2017

KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin examines the work of one of Colombia's most emblematic artists.

The Body as an Audience Member

Wura-Natasha Ogunji discusses her curatorial choices for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo.

Indigenous Architecture in the Americas

American indigenous knowledge influenced Europeans in many ways, sometimes unexpected – among them the art of building.

Las Nietas de Nonó: “We Need to Heal the Wounds”

The Puerto Rican duo of artists and sisters present their performances at the 10th Berlin Biennale.

Ana Mendieta in Berlin

The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin shows the works if the legendary Cuban video artist Ana Mendieta.

Yolanda Chois – Searching for Paths Towards Safer Shores

The Colombian curator wonders how to communicate through art the relationship between people and the territories they inhabit.

Africa Collection São Paulo, Brazil

Take a look into libraries and book collections holding some of the rarer and often forgotten publications.

The End of the Contemporary?

The sociologist talks about terminologies, alternative approaches to history, and the creation of a decolonial space for thinking.

Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa

We take a closer look at the exhibition, which remains polarizing as a subject of curatorial and art-historical debates.