Review

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…



Greame Williams, 'Nelson Mandela mit Winnie Mandela as he is released from the Victor Vester Prison', 1990, Courtesy the artist © Greame Williams

“Rise and Fall of Apartheid" at the International Center for Photography

What does South Africa mean to Manhattan?

Author M. Neelika Jayawardane reviews the exhibition “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” in…

Art Dubai's Marker 2013

Art Dubai’s Marker 2013: A barometer for the African art market?

Curated by Bisi Silva, founding director of the CCA in Lagos, "Marker 2013"…

Steve McQueen at Schaulager Basel

‘His work’s assault on the senses behaves like an attack’

Steve McQueen’s career retrospective at the Schaulager in Basel includes works that perplex…

Adolphus Opara

Framing stories of mytical influences

Obidike Okafor on Adolphus Opara’s large-format, painterly images of diviners from regions of…

Obidike Okafor about the exhibition 'The Progress of Love'

A journey of self examination

'The Progress of Love' at the CCA Lagos successfully and critically engages with…

Massa Lemu about the exhibition 'The Progress of Love'

What part of love is universal?

The show 'The Progress of Love' at the Menil Collection in Houston is…


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