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Gladys Mgudlandlu, Three men in blue, not dated. Body colour. Courtesy Johannesburg Art Gallery

Female Pioneers

Gladys Mgudlandlu : peindre depuis la perspective aérienne des oiseaux

Dans notre toute dernière série, Female Pioneers, nous nous sommes intéressé·e·s à des…

Magdalene Odundo, (left)
Asymmetrical Betu II, 2010. Red clay, carbonized and multi-fired, 53 x 27 cm, signed under base. (Right) Assymetrical Series, 2017. Terracotta vessel, 24.5 x 12.5 inches {62.23 x 31.35 cm}. Both images courtesy of Anthony Slayter-Ralph.

Female Pioneers

Magdalene Odundo: Dancing with Vessels

In our latest series – Female Pioneers – C& looks at female artists…

Theresa Musoke, Self Portrait. Courtesy of Art Nanadede.

Female Pioneers

Theresa Musoke: A Lifetime Dedicated to Art in East Africa

On the occasion of International Women's Day we look in our latest series…

(bottom right): ZED, Présence absence, 2018. Courtesy the artist / (top right) Arthur Jafa, Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death (still), 2016, single-channel video (color, sound), 7:30 minutes, courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome./ (bottom left) ZED, Couleurs de Brazza, 2018. Courtesy the artist. / (top left) Ozhope Collective, “Row” (2018), Courtesy of the Collective.

2018: The Year in Review

C&’s Top Articles of 2018

Another year is coming to an end in which we have grown and…

Magia, 2014, stiching, binding, and different fabrics

Sonia Gomes

“My Work Is Black, Feminine and Marginal”

Sonia Gomes’s immersion into the feminized textures of yarn, fabric and color moves…

Ozhope Collective, “Row” (2018), Courtesy of the Collective

“Thinkivist” Art

The Ozhope Collective and the Oil Debate in Malawi

Oil is a tricky good, especially when found in the waters of a…

Vidéo performance Lubumbashi-Kinshasa de FUNDI MWAMBA (FM) Gustave Giresse et Michael DISANKA (video still), 2018. Une production de O2 Studios, Collectif D'art D'art et Mite Enternenement.

L’art vidéo

De l’expérimentation à l’art vidéo dans le travail de FM Gustave Giresse

Il a recours à des images marquantes, telles que son propre visage recouvert…

L’homme qui a revalorisé la culture africaine issue de la vision ethnologique occidentale

Cheikh Anta Diop

L’homme qui a revalorisé la culture africaine issue de la vision ethnologique occidentale

En l'honneur de #BlackHistoryMonth un autre article du C& Archive! L’université Cheikh Anta…

À l’époque où les généraux régnaient et où la culture noire importait moins

Abdias do Nascimento

À l’époque où les généraux régnaient et où la culture noire importait moins

Érudit afro-brésilien et homme de théâtre radical, Abdias do Nascimento gêna la présence…

Douglas Hodge and Letitia Wright in Black Mirror (2011)

Netflix

Find Out Why Black Twitter Is Going Mad Over Black Mirror

Black Mirror's latest episode Black Museum is a fitting analogy for how Black…

Charles Nkosi. Soweto at dawn, 1979. Watercolor and ink; 42 x 44 cm. Fort Hare University De Beers Collection, taken from De Jager, E.J. 1992. Images of Man: Contemporary South African Black Art and artists, University of Fort Hare Press: Alice, pg 184. © Charles Nkosi.

C& and art21 magazine

The Black Theology in Sokhaya Charles Nkosi’s Paintings

Intertwining religion, Black existentialism, and the emergence of Black consciousness, Black theology is…

Scholars, Museum Directors, Curators and Artists at the International Conference on African Cultures, 1962. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art in Zimbabwe.

A Groundbreaking Congress in Zimbabwe

How the ICAC Highlighted the Global Influence of Artists from Africa in 1962

In the 1960s in Southern Rhodesia, the International Congress of African Culture made…

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