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A Collector’s Guide to São Paolo

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A Collector’s Guide to São Paolo

“What are the potentials of growing Black patronage across the diaspora, and how can we build lasting infrastructure…

Jazsalyn, A(spora), 2025. Installation view at John Chavis Memorial Park, Raleigh, NC, US. Courtesy the artist and Raleigh Arts. Photographer: Jude McDonald.

Installation View

Jazsalyn’s A(spora): On the Gullah Geechee Corridor

This installation uses augmented reality to explore Ancestral Intelligence of the Gullah Geechee.

Steve McQueen, Bass, 2024, LED Light and Sound, Courtesy the artist, Co-commissioned work by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel and Dia Art Foundation, 15 June – 16 November 2025, Schaulager® Münchenstein/Basel (Installation view), Photo: Pati Grabowicz, © Steve McQueen

Exhibition Review

Steve McQueen: The Bassline As Sonic Intelligence

Steve McQueen’s current intervention at Schaulager museum, Bass, is a holding architecture of sound, requiring our endurance.

 
The Artistic Team for documenta 16: Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, Xiaoyu Weng, Carla Acevedo-Yates, and Naomi Beckwith (f.l.t.r.), Kassel 2025. Photo: Nicolas Wefers

News

Naomi Beckwith Unveils Core Artistic Team for documenta 16

Artistic Director Naomi Beckwith announces an all-female team for documenta 16, taking place in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027.

Bernice Mulenga’s LMK WHEN U REACH

Installation View

Bernice Mulenga’s LMK WHEN U REACH

On view at Auto Italia in London until 26 October, this exhibition reframes dancefloors as sites of intimacy, community, solidarity and resistance.

 
Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Kabelo Malatsie with Robert Machiri

Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Arts Collaboratory commissioned Kabelo Malatsie to respond to their network and the outcome is a sonic essay with Zimbabwean artist Robert Machiri.

Rasheedah Phillips, Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt, 2021. Digital collage. © Rasheedah Phillips.

ARE YOU FOR REAL

ifa Presents New Work by Rasheedah Phillips

The artwork entitled Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt maps several destroyed historic all-Black…

The Red Affair (Detail), 2020, John Baptist Sekubulwa, Courtesy of artist.

Artist Portrait

Ugandan Artist John Baptist Sekubulwa Links Historical And Contemporary Pain

Relentlessly questioning political power relations, Sekubulwa chooses the image of the human brain to depict postcolonial vulnerability – and hope.

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The US painter uses the symbolism of flowers to remember violent losses within the Black community and create tender moments that embody the senses.

Kimberli Gant (left) and Stephanie Sparling Williams (right). Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.

News

Brooklyn Museum Appoints Stephanie Sparling Williams and Kimberli Gant as Curators

The New York - Museum has made two major hires for American art and modern and contemporary art, to start in December and January.

Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Performance at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Sommerfest 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Three Namibian Artists on their Residency at Schloss Solitude

We talked to Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Hage Mukwendje, and Nesindano Namises about their approaches, methods, processes, and inspirations.

Jamillah James. Photo by Jasmine Clarke.

News

Jamillah James Named Senior Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

James sees herself as "advocate" for artists and starts her new role in Chicago early next year.

Adama Delphine Fawundu , Earth seed New York State, 2017. Courtesy of Adama Delphine Fawundu

In Conversation

Aldeide Delgado and the Women Photographers International Archive

We spoke to the founder of WOPHA about rediscovering forgotten female Cuban artists and photography’s many uses – including its ability for change.

Julie Mehretu, Among the Multitude I, 2019/2021. Courtesy the artist and carlier | gebauer.

In Conversation

Julie Mehretu: Keeping Vigil with no Loss to Poetry

Rose Jepkorir spoke to the New York-based artist to dive into her work that explores the strange in between places through abstraction.

Lunga Ntila Seeks GOD AMONG US in Her Body of Work

In Conversation

Lunga Ntila Seeks GOD AMONG US in Her Body of Work

Ahead of AKAA Paris we speak to the South African artist about her multiple identities, unfamiliar surroundings, and the symbolism of bees.

Digital Art Illustration Battle. Courtesy of Fak'ugesi

Fak’ugesi – African Digital Innovation Festival

Building as a Way to Project Ourselves into the Future

The 2021 edition of Fak’ugesi – African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg focused…

Exhibition view

In Conversation

Rafiki Arts Initiatives: Building Bridges Between Norway and Africa

We spoke to Nicole Rafiki, the artist behind a series of actions that…

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