News

Em’kal Eyongakpa Receives Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018

Winner announced

Em’kal Eyongakpa Receives Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018

Em’kal Eyongakpa is the first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived…

Contemporary And Presents (C&): C& América Latina

NOW LIVE!

Contemporary And Presents (C&): C& América Latina

A new multilingual Platform focusing on the connections between Afro-Latin America, the Caribbean,…

Henrike Grohs Art Award 2018: Shortlisted Artists, left to right: Em’kal Eyongakpa, Georgina Maxim and Makouvia Kokou Ferdinand

Henrike Grohs Art Award

Shortlist Announced For New Prize for African Artists

Em’kal Eyongakpa (Cameroon), Georgina Maxim (Zimbabwe) and Makouvia Kokou Ferdinand (Togo) have been…

Samuel Fosso - NPG London - 2017 (c) Jorge Herrera, courtesy of ICP

Infinity Awards

Samuel Fosso wins ICP’s Infinity Art Award 2018

The International Center of Photography (ICP) announced the 2018 honorees of its annual…

Curator Adrienne Edwards. Photo by Whitney Browne.

Whitney Museum

Adrienne Edwards appointed Curator of Performance

The Whitney Museum in New York has appointed Adrienne Edwards as the museum’s…

Image: Left to right: Mostapha Romli, Founding President; Michèle Desmottes, Director of Communication; Christine Eyene, Artistic Director of the 4th International Biennial of Casablanca. Photo: Brahim Taougar.

Biennial of Casablanca

Curatorial Committee for 2018 Announced 

The committee is composed of Dr. Ethel Brooks, Yasmina Naji, Ema Tavola and…

Kapwani Kiwanga, © Bertille Chéret, Courtesy of Galerie Jérôme Poggi

Frieze New York 2018

Kapwani Kiwanga Wins Inaugural Frieze Artist Award

The Paris-based artist will realize an open-air installation, exploring freedom of movement and…

Image: Henrike Grohs. Copyright Marc-André Schmachtel.

Henrike Grohs Art Award

New Prize For African Artists Is A Call For Reflection And Action

The first recipient of the Henrike Grohs Art Award, conceived by the Goethe-Institut…

left :Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley / Oil on canvas, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2018 Kehinde Wiley
right: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald / Oil on linen, 2018 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

National Portrait Gallery

Barack and Michelle Obama Official Portraits Unveiled

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are the first African American artists commissioned to…

Photo credit: Guillermo Cano, Mickalene Thomas (left) and Racquel
Chevremont (right)

VOLTA 2018

Announcing Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont for 2018 Curated Section

Titled “The Aesthetics of Matter,” the 3rd edition of the Curated Section at…

Sir David Adjaye (Mentor Architecture) and Protégée Mariam Kamara.

Rolex Arts Initiative

New mentors and protégés announced

Sir David Adjaye , Zakir Hussain , Crystal Pite and Colm Tóibín will…

ruby onyinyechi amanze (Foto: Sahar Coston-Hardy)

Montblanc Art Collection

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze one of the recipients of Artist Commission Program 2018

Guided by the belief that the arts inspire new ideas and thinking, the…