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(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.

Year-in-Review

C& Highlights of 2024

It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.

Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Studio Visit

Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance

Marny Garcia Mommertz visits Anaïs Cheleux in her Guadeloupe studio to chat about sugar-cane syrup and her work at this year's Off Biennale in Dakar.

Julien Creuzet. Photo: Cristian Baena.

60th Venice Biennale

A Journey into the Mind and Work of Julien Creuzet

Marny Garcia Mommertz and Cristian Baena reflect on a recent press trip to Martinique alongside the artist and curator of the French Pavilion.

CCA Lagos, view From Front. Courtesy CCA Lagos.

Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos and Sotheby’s

Bisi Silva’s CCA Lagos is the Subject of a Major Revamp

With over 1 million dollars raised at a Sotheby’s CCA Lagos Benefit auction, one of Nigeria’s most respected art institutions is getting a major rehab

Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum (Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum), Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Debate on Looted Art

Germany reveals Framework Principles for Dealing with Collections from Colonial Contexts

After the important report on the need for restitution of looted African artifacts…

Shuddhabrata Sengupta at Global Academy II, Salzburg 2018. Photo: Olamiju Fajemisin

The International Summer Academy Salzburg

Why Decolonising the Arts Must Be an Intersectional Effort

In an event held in Salzburg, Austria, art practitioners from across the world…

Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva, Ride the Caspian, 2011. 2-channel video installation, HD colour, surround sound, wall-mounted digital photographs. Sound: OMFO, Negar Behbahani. Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation with a grant from the Art and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute Budapest and the support of Priska C Juschka Fine Art. Sharjah Art Foundation Collection

March Meeting 2018

What Does Resistance in the Arts Look Like Today?

From the New Museum Triennial’s Songs for Sabotage to the Triennial of Photography…

Scholars, Museum Directors, Curators and Artists at the International Conference on African Cultures, 1962. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art in Zimbabwe.

A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe

How the ICAC Highlighted the Global Influence of Artists from Africa in 1962

In the 1960s in Southern Rhodesia, the International Congress of African Culture made…

Ben Enwonwu © The Ben Enwonwu Foundation

Conference: Positioning Nigerian Modernism

Unveiling Hidden Truths

Honoring Ben Enwonwu at Tate Modern with the international conference “Positioning Nigerian Modernism,”…

Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1986. Exhibition view, The Place Is Here, Nottingham Contemporary, 2017. Photo Andy Keate. Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens.

Post-Brexit Perspectives

The Place Is Here. The Time Is Now.

An exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary examined just how the neglected discourse around artists…

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.…

Curating Contemporaneity

Notes on ICI Dakar

Curating Contemporaneity

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

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