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“What are the potentials of growing Black patronage across the diaspora, and how can we build lasting infrastructure…
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Installation View
This installation uses augmented reality to explore Ancestral Intelligence of the Gullah Geechee.
Exhibition Review
Steve McQueen’s current intervention at Schaulager museum, Bass, is a holding architecture of sound, requiring our endurance.
News
Artistic Director Naomi Beckwith announces an all-female team for documenta 16, taking place in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027.
On view at Auto Italia in London until 26 October, this exhibition reframes dancefloors as sites of intimacy, community, solidarity and resistance.
Artistic Communities
Anna Adima reflects on the embrace of community and resourcefulness despite infrastructural challenges in Kampala’s rapidly expanding artistic scene.
"Afterlives of History"
The multifacted work of Unidigrazz invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.
C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah
Fellow Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial essay that introduces eight texts exploring the complex legacies of colonial histories in Kenya.
C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship
Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired by her family’s generational knowledge of medicinal.
In her contribution, Mwende Ngao explores the complex relationship between urban life and nature in a rapidly developing Nairobi.
Inside the Library
C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. Keren Lasme chooses five books from the feminist library AWU in Dakar.
Year-in-Review
It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.
14th African Biennal of Photography
The continent's leading photography festival is a rallying cry for African self-reliance and a platform for new voices, writes Obidike Okafor.
The Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York will lead the next edition of documenta to be held from June 12 to September 19, 2027.
Additional prizes were awarded to Wilfried Vanie and Victor Adewale, with honorable mentions for Seyba Keita, Dior Thiam, and John Moussa Kalapo.
C& Center of Unfinished Business
Our author Aaliyah Lauterkranz was inspired to write a poem by Hall's pioneering thinking in the context of identity.
Grant Announcement
Transforming how audiences engage with 10+ years of C& content with Mellon Foundation support.
INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME
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Inventing your own game
In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the Western art world…
Inventing Your Own Game
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C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.
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LATEST EDITORIAL
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Rendering microscopic imagery of indigenous African plant species through digital technologies, Jazsalyn links histories…
In contrast to his 2013 survey at Schaulager museum, which spanned across video, photography,…
Artistic Director Naomi Beckwith announces an all-female team for documenta 16, including Carla Acevedo-Yates,…
On view at Auto Italia in London until 26 October, this exhibition reframes dancefloors…
Inside The Library
Tracing the roadmap that necessitated the creation of Bao Books and later the Moving…
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13.png)
