Restitution
Can the French restitution of some of Benin’s royal treasures constitute a new beginning? Mati Diop’s new film, Dahomey, delves this question.
Letter from Nairobi
Mūhunyo Maina reviews a pertinent exhibition at NCAI, following protests against the 2024 Finance Bill, exploring ways to democratize art viewing.
Sharjah Art Museum
A comprehensive survey offers insights into the Ethiopian painter’s career and makes the case for multiple modernisms.
Rencontres de Bamako – Biennale Africaine de la Photographie
The distinguished author looks back on a year of turmoil: on coups, wars and embargos, but also on artistic connection with the world.
Best of 2022
From the major art events that have shaped this year to a joyful celebration of Black lives and art: these are the editors favourite picks of 2022.
documenta fifteen
Our author highlights the inspiring artistic positions of this year’s documenta that took place from 8 June to 25 September 2022 in Kassel, Germany.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
The US artist’s first solo and retrospective exhibition in Germany takes the name of a Baldwin essay and features a variety of media.
When Rain Clouds Gather
This exhibition at Norval Foundation shows a detailed history of pioneering Black South African female artists from 1940 to 2000.
Looking Back
While in Istanbul Baldwin used fierce artistry to unmask the USA’s façade as the custodian of freedom and democracy, explains curator Gürsoy Doğtaş.
Black Archives Sweden
The artist explores Sweden’s iron production and its connection with the transatlantic slave…
Chinua Achebe Exhibition
C&’s Obidike Okafor reviews an exhibition celebrating a fifty-year old film adaptation of…
Inventing Your Own Game
In the “post-war” period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…
Dekoloniale Berlin
One hundred and twenty-five years after it took place, the “Colonial Village” at…
Invisible Inventories
Being asked to call something an object can be troubling, as evidenced in…
Celebrating Female Pioneers
On the occasion of International Women's Day, our author Ethel-Ruth Tawe looks toward…
Marechera’s The House of Hunger
Artist Santiago Mostyn revisits The House of Hunger by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera…
Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace
The retrospective at the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art in Tamale, Ghana reflects…
Exhibition Histories
With its eclectic approach the exhibition Tendances et Confrontations from 1966 provided snapshots…
Polish-Moroccan Artistic Relations
An exhibition reflects on the experience of a Morocco’s leading modernist painter in…
States of Mobility
Mobility in the arts, geographical or otherwise, is often seen as almost a…
Freedom in the Eyes of Josiah Tongogara
The exhibition Freedom in the eyes of Josiah Tongogara at Zimbabwe’s National Gallery…
Installation View #museumshutdown
Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to…
Santu Mofokeng (1956 -2020)
The late Santu Mofokeng was one of the few artists who managed to…
The 2010s not only saw the rise of new and urgent social movements…
In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the…
C& Special Edition #Detroit
Jasmine Sinclair Wilson on becoming Horace Imhotep's artwork.
In this series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and…
In Conversation with Francis Nnaggenda II
By expediently excluding Ugandan masters from a rich East African heritage, the 2018…
In Conversation with Francis Nnaggenda I
Prof. Francis Nnaggenda is a legendary art educator, sculptor, and painter whose artworks…
C& Center of Unfinished Business
In this series, C& and ArtsEverywhere commission texts inspired by the books in…
Echoes of the South Atlantic
The project “Der Black Atlantic,” presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in…
In Conversation with Radha May
The artist collective Radha May has created a work from scenes depicting expressions…
Abdias do Nascimento
Abdias do Nascimento was a prominent Afro-Brazilian scholar and radical theater maker who…
A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe
The International Congress for African Culture (ICAC) brought scores of international art practitioners…
In Conversation with Zoe Whitley
Zoe Whitley, a curator of international art at Tate Modern, is one of…
C& and Aperture Magazine
M. Neelika Jayawardane speaks with Emmanuel Iduma about the influential role - and…
In a new series, C& is revisiting the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking,…
magazines
The Leopold Senghor award of Dak’art 2016 was given to the Egyptian/ Swiss…
On museum
Sean O'Toole visits South Africa’s first privately owned museum devoted exclusively to art…
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