Opinion

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.

Curatorial Pitfalls

On Arthur Jafa and the US-centrism of Black representation in Europe

When representing Black life in art, curators in Europe tend to focus on…

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Cristofano Allori (as picked by Hettie Judah)

Art World

#metoo – where do we take it from here?

Since the #metoo campaign resurfaced in 2017 in the wake of the Weinstein…

Street Performance of Mugabe's

“Coffin for Head of State”

When Zimbabwe Responded to Mugabe’s Fall with Street Art

After 37 years of a tough rule that restricted freedoms across society, Zimbabweans…

#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…

Works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, El Anatsui, and Abdoulaye Diarrassouba (Aboudia) at the Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Sale Exhibition, London, May 2017 © Patricia A. Banks

Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary African Art Sale

Fluid Categories

Auctions with a focus on modern and contemporary African artists aren’t novelties anymore.…

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”

Comment

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…

Curating Contemporaneity

Notes on ICI Dakar

Curating Contemporaneity

Taylor Renee, a US-based writer and curator, traveled to Dakar, Senegal to attend…

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…

Art museum education across continents

Transformative Ideas

Art museum education across continents

The job of art museum educators is to connect critical ideas, content and…


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