Review

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Little alternatives but to strike out alone

Our author Rebecca Jagoe took a look at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art…

Arles in Black

South African photography featured in the Rencontres d'Arles, 2013

Arles in Black

Our author Yves Chatap explores this special encounter.

A retrospective on Ibrahim El-Salahi

Visionary Modernist and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist at Tate Modern constitutes an extensive retrospective of…

'Mécaniques des fluids'

“Is it imaginable for the two groups to meet on the horizon?”

The Cécile Fakhoury Gallery redesigned and transformed into a cinema with separate projection…

Julie Mehretu

She captures the unruly rush of city life in a terribly convincing way

'LIMINAL SQUARED' Julie Mehretu at White Cube 9 x 9 x 9 and…

A review by Sean O’Toole

The Beautiful Mess

A new series of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo highlights the role…

Installation view, Lemi Ghariokwu

Obidike Okafor on the art of Lemi Ghariokwu

More than album covers

Lemi Ghariokwu’s creativity goes beyond just album covers, as it stretches to other…

'Sentimental' in Paris

Revue Noire at the rhythm of Joel Andrianomearisoa’s heartbeats

Sentimental, a six-month exhibition held at Maison Revue Noire from May 1st to…



Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House (2012). Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. Image courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO I BERLIN.

Theaster Gates at the MCA Chicago

Transitional moments and rituals

The 13th Ballad, Theaster Gates adds a kind of postscript to his participation…

Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern

“Your truths are self-evident. Ours, a mystery”

To ‘see through’, to gain perspective: Ellen Gallagher’s first retrospective in Great Britain…

Blackness in Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Sean O’Toole about the 'vu compra' and how artists re-imagine blackness

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman ?, 2013 Vidéo, 11 min 57 sec © Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Performance artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji

‘Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman’

Our author Wana Udobang took part in one of the artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji's…


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