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Abdoulaye Konaté, 'Composition 3', (Detail) bazin teint, 228x146cm, 2012

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Dak’Art Announces Theme and Program

With Ĩ Ndaffa, the fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale calls for the transmutation of concepts and the foundation of new meanings.

Photo: Derrick Beasley

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Lauren Haynes Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Queens Museum

Haynes joins the Queens Museum from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to start in mid-July.

(left) Simone Leigh. Foto: Shaniqwa Jarvis/Courtesy of the Simone Leigh and Hauser & Wirth via Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art/AP/dpa. (right) Sonia Boyce, commissioned by the British Council for the British Pavilion 2022. Image: Cristiano Corte © British Council

59th Venice Biennale

Golden Lion to Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce

The prestigious award goes to Leigh for her participation in the main show and to Boyce's British Pavilion, special mentions to Uganda and France.

Clockwise: © Veronica Ryan. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert; Ingrid Pollard. Photo Emile Holbar; Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen; Sin Wai Kin crop by Vic Lentaigne

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Turner Prize Announces Finalists in 2022

Among two other artists, Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan are on the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize.

Sonia Boyce. Photo: Sarah Weal.

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Sonia Boyce Represents UK in Venice

Being the first Black woman to represent Britain, Boyce’s will show a multi-media installation comprising video, sound, wallpaper and sculptures.

Christine Eyene. Photo: Aliyah Leger.

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Christine Eyene Joins LJMU and Tate Liverpool

The curator and art historian has been appointed Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.

Prince Claus Fund Names Mentees for Educational Programme Building Beyond

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Prince Claus Fund Names Mentees for Educational Programme Building Beyond

12 artists from 9 African countries will jointly reflect on the future of cities and communities to find and push forward new urban agendas.

(left to right) Lulu Jemimah photo by Maria Carranza; Maya Alam, Photo credits: © AlamProfeta; Vitjitua Ndjiharine by Akademie Schloss Solitude/Frank Kleinbach

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Residents for Dekoloniale Berlin Announced

Dekoloniale and C& choose Lulu Jemimah, Maya Alam and Vitjitua Ndjiharine for the 2022 residencies in Writing, Architecture and Design.

Gladys Kalichini, Portrait © Kelvin Haizel; ... these practices are done in sharing her stories, 2020, four-channel video, photograph by Arthur Debert; Retitled: Untitled, 2018, outdoor voile installation, photograph by Gladys Kalichini

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Gladys Kalichini Wins Henrike Grohs Art Award 2022

For her "melancholic meditation on Zambia’s colonial and postcolonial histories", visual artist Kalichini wins the prize in memory of Henrike Grohs.

Camille Turner, Nave, 2021-2022, 00:12:34 (H:M:S), three-channel 3840 x 2160 video installation. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022. Photo: Toni Hafkenschied. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.

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Camille Turner Receives TBA Artist Prize

The Toronto Biennale of Art honored Camille Turner, whose work reveals colonial Canada's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa

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Fadzai Muchemwa Appointed Curator at National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Writer an Curator Fadzai Muchemwa will take the curatorial lead of Contemporary Art at one of Harare's oldest and most important art museums.

Clockwise: Diébédo Francis Kéré, photo courtesy of Lars Borges; Gando Primary School
2001, Gando, Burkina Faso. Photo courtesy of Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk; National Park of Mali, photo courtesy of Francis Kéré

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Diébédo Francis Kéré Receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Pioneering in sustainable architecture, Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of his work.