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#SayHerName, 2016, Rose Installation at the entrance to Stevenson, Cape Town. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

HOW TO MAKE MUSEUMS USEFUL

Old Buildings. New Conversations.

C& author Thuli Gamedze writes about South Africa’s museum’s colonial history and suggests…

Kadir Nelson, DRAKE: Nothing was the Same, 2013  oil on linen  62” x 30”, Cash Money Records. © Kadir Nelson

On the collaboration between Kadir Nelson and Drake

Boyz to Men

A while ago US-artist Kadir Nelson entered an unlikely creative partnership with rapper…

Goede Hoop - South Africa and the Netherlands since 1600, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2017. Photo by the author

Comment: the exhibition Goede Hoop - South Africa and the Netherlands since 1600

History as Fetish | Culture as Commodity

Currently on view at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is the exhibition Goede Hoop -…

Beyond “Based in Berlin”

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Beyond “Based in Berlin”

C&’s Editors-in-Chief Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba reflect on the ideas of “the…

Why “Our Lady” Sparks Protests

Exhibition under Attack

Why “Our Lady” Sparks Protests

In response to the Our Lady exhibition in Cape Town, our author Joan…

Will Trump’s White House push back recent gains by African-American artists?

Redecoration politics

Will Trump’s White House push back recent gains by African-American artists?

Obama's fine selection of works from Glenn Ligon to Alma Thomas is going…

Towards an Open Approach or a Dead Letter ?

Kinshasa: Decolonising Arts Education I

Towards an Open Approach or a Dead Letter ?

Arts practitioners, educators and academics gathered in Kinshasa earlier this year to discuss…

The Urgency of a Clearer Strategic Direction

Dak'Art 2016

The Urgency of a Clearer Strategic Direction

Aboubacar Bemba Cissokho's opinion piece about this year's Dak'Art...

‘The Shame in Venice’ by Kenyan artist Michael Soi

Venice Biennale 2015

The Double Life of Kenya at Venice

Serubiri Moses about the Kenyan Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale

“The precarity of artistic labour induces a certain schizophrenia.”

About the death of photographer Thabiso Sekgala

“The precarity of artistic labour induces a certain schizophrenia.”

The death of photographer Thabiso Sekgala caused shock and grief not only in…

KLA ART puts East African art on the map

About the contemporary art festival KLA ART

KLA ART puts East African art on the map

Katrin Peters-Klaphake describes how a contemporary art festival in Kampala has grown and…

From Colonial Practice to Participatory Art

Human Zoo

From Colonial Practice to Participatory Art

Human Zoo


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