Review

Arthur Jafa, Dreams are Colder than Death (Still), 2013. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.

Seeking a new form of Black subjectivity

Love is the Message

Anchored in Kanye West’s gospel-inspired track Ultralight Beam, the award-winning video of Arthur…

Installation view 'Kolmanskop Dream' by Pascale- Marthine Tayou, ifa galerie Berlin, Detail ©  Elsa Guily

The History of a “Colonial Ghost”

Rejoining the Times

A joyful aggressiveness surrounds Pascale Marthine Tayou’s sculptural work at its spring debut…

 Kemang Wa Lehulere, Broken Wing, 2016. Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, 2017. Installation view. Photo: Mathias Schormann

Critique: Bird Song

Paying Tribute to Personal and Collective Traumas

Being Deutsche Bank’s “Artists of the Year” 2017, Wa Lehulere is currently showing…

Mark Bradford, Tomorrow Is Another Day. Venice Biennale, US Pavilion, 2017. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

Venice Biennale 2017

Counting bodies: It’s not just about the maths

Since its opening in 1930, it's time to take stock of the US…

Through the window of the Boat of History. The Parliament of Bodies, Documenta 14. Photo by and courtesy of Nikos Doulos*

Documenta 14: Athens

In The Surrounds of History

Jota Mombaça recently moved to Athens for observing the multiple events surrounding Documenta…

EJ Hill, An Arrangement of Perpetuities, 2017

Venice Biennale 2017

Viva Africa Viva?

Does the label “African” at events like the Venice Biennale finally expire? The…

Cover Illustration

Venice Biennale 2017

Kenya is Another Country

In this essay, artist and writer Neo Musangi takes a look back at…

Sammy Baloji, Tales of the Copper Cross Garden: Episode I, 2017, various materials, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14, photo: Stathis Mamalakis

Documenta 14 Athens

Why Art Needs to Keep Engaging with the Social

Under the ambitious title "Learning from Athens", this year's Documenta tries to face…

Sonia Boyce’s We move in her way. Photo: George Torode; Courtesy: the artist and ICA, London

Review: Sonia Boyce at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Recouping the remains

In Sonia Boyce's latest presentation, the realms of power and space are closely…

Vue du parvi de la grande halle de la Villette, photographie de Alexis Peskine, Le radeau de la méduse, King Baana 2016. Photo © Elsa Guily

Afriques Capitales: Writing the City

When the city assembles its own language

For the second edition of the multidisciplinary festival 100%, dedicated this year to…

Dineo Seshee Bopape, +/-1791 (Monument to the Haitian Revolution 1791), 2017. Mixed-media installation. Dimensions variable. Produced by Sharjah Art Foundation. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

A review of Sharjah Biennial 2017

Where Conversations Need to Take Place

Our author Christine Eyene takes a closer look at the 13th Sharjah Biennial,…

Installation view German Colonialism - Fragments Past and Present at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 2017. ©  Deutsches Historisches Museum

Review: German Colonialism - Fragments Past and Present

”Where Are You Going, White Man?”

This special exhibition on German colonialism opened in October 2016 at the Deutsches…


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