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 Installation View: Robert Reed: San Romano Series, Pilar Corrias, London. 12 April – 18 May 2019. Courtesy of the Robert Reed Estate and Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths.

Inventing Your Own Game

Robert Reed: Re-entering the US American Art Canon

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

Jack Whitten, Quantum Wall, VIII (For Arshile Gorky, My First Love in Painting), Detail, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 122,6 x 122,6 cm © Courtesy the Jack Whitten Estate and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

Inventing Your Own Game

Jack Whitten: A Painter’s Painter Gets His Long-Overdue Recognition

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

The artist Ibrahim Ahmed and his censored work, Does Anybody Leave Heaven, 2019. Image credits: Hesham Mohamed Hassan

13th Havana Biennial

The Artists Censored in Cuba Speak Out

From the outset, the 13th Havana Biennial – the Construction of the Possible…

Mawande Ka Zenzile, Ubuza ibhasi ibhaliwe, 2019. Diptych, Cow dung, gesso and oil on canvas; artist’s frame with gold leaf
200 x 100cm each

Venice Biennale 2019

The South African Pavilion Builds a Bridge Between Past and Present

Mawande Ka Zenzile, Tracey Rose, and Dineo Seshee Bopape are the three artists…

Adler Guerrier, Untitled (Beckoned by the light and passage to an enabling and condotion-shapingland - stationed on Bscayne Bay), 2017. Christian Hernandez David Castillo Gallery.

Havana Biennial 2019

Art Between Censorship And Complicity

The 13th Havana Biennial takes place from 12 April to 12 May 2019…

Felicia Abban. Self Portrait IV.

Female Pioneers

Felicia Abban: Behind the Scenes

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists…

Rosemary Karuga, (left) Untitled, 1998. 40x57cm. (right) Untitled, 1998. 40x57cm. Both images courtesy Red Hill Art Gallery.

Female Pioneers

Rosemary Karuga: Unearthing Hidden Artistic Treasures

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – C& looks at female artists…

Gladys Mgudlandlu, Three men in blue, not dated. Body colour. Courtesy Johannesburg Art Gallery

Female Pioneers

Gladys Mgudlandlu: Painting from a Bird’s-eye View

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – we look at female artists…

Magdalene Odundo, (left)
Asymmetrical Betu II,  2010. Red clay, carbonized and multi-fired, 53 x 27 cm, signed under base. (Right) Assymetrical Series, 2017. Terracotta vessel, 24.5 x 12.5 inches {62.23 x 31.35 cm}. Both images courtesy of Anthony Slayter-Ralph.

Female Pioneers

Magdalene Odundo: Dancing with Vessels

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – C& looks at female artists…

Theresa Musoke, Self Portrait. Courtesy of Art Nanadede.

Female Pioneers

Theresa Musoke: A Lifetime Dedicated to Art in East Africa

On the occasion of International Women's Day we look in our latest series…

(bottom right): ZED, Présence absence, 2018. Courtesy the artist / (top right) Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (still), 2016, single-channel video (color, sound), 7:30 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome./ (bottom left) ZED, Couleurs de Brazza, 2018. Courtesy the artist. / (top left) Ozhope Collective, “Row” (2018), Courtesy of the Collective.

2018: The Year in Review

C&’s Top Articles of 2018

Another year is coming to an end in which we have grown and…

Magia, 2014, stiching, binding, and different fabrics

Sonia Gomes

“My Work Is Black, Feminine and Marginal”

Sonia Gomes’s immersion into the feminized textures of yarn, fabric and color moves…


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