Critique

Bahar Behbahani and Almagul Menlibayeva, Ride the Caspian, 2011.  2-channel video installation, HD colour, surround sound, wall-mounted digital photographs. Sound: OMFO, Negar Behbahani. Co-produced by Sharjah Art Foundation with a grant from the Art and Culture Network Program, Open Society Institute Budapest and the support of Priska C Juschka Fine Art. Sharjah Art Foundation 

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March Meeting 2018

What Does Resistance in the Arts Look Like Today?

From the New Museum Triennial’s Songs for Sabotage to the Triennial of Photography…

Jared Onyango, Me in a Square, Performance at Goethe Institut Nairobi. Photo Courtesy of the Goethe Institut.

Jared Onyango: Me in a Square

Using Ritual to Create New Meanings for the Black Skin

At the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, artist Jared Onyango captured the violent nature of…

Collective Zbel Manifesto, A Dinner in Town. Courtesy of Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakesh, Morocco.

MACAAL Marrakech

Morocco Opens its First Museum for Contemporary Art

At the end of February 2018, Morocco opened its first museum for contemporary…

LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pat Brunty, the caretaker standing behind No Contest 1994, Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Joshua Tree, CA, Gelatin silver print (2017)

Powerful Reminders of Underserved Communities

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Pictures Show How People Live Without Water

In LaToya Ruby Frazier’s first commercial show in New York, the artist exhibits…

Demonstration against the murder of Patrice Lumumba, Prague1961. Archive of Piyasiri Gunaratna

"Biafra of Spirit" in Prague

Film and Clashing Political Agendas in 1960s Czechoslovakia

In the 1960s Czechoslovakia’s aspiration to a “socialism with a human face” and…

Musa N. Nxumalo, Anthology of Youth, Doowap 2, 2016. Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. Courtesy Smac Gallery

African Biennale of Photography

Bamako Hypothesizes the Future without Neglecting the Past

Entitled Afrotopia, the 11th Rencontres de Bamako – African Biennale of Photography brought…

Tabita Rezaire, Sugar Walls Teardom, 2016, Gynaecological chair, mechanical arm, HD video / HD Video / HD video (without gynaelogical chair) Courtesy Goodman Gallery

2017: The Year in Review

Every Work of Art is a Speculative Technology

C& author Sean O’Toole looks beyond the major museum openings and expanding art…

SUD 2017

Focus sur l’Humain

Une semaine pour découvrir les arts visuels de manière originale. Du 5 au…

Lubaina Himid, A Fashionable Marriage, 1987. The Turner Prize Exhibition. Ferens Art Gallery. Hull. Photograph by David Levene.

Still Work to be Done

2017’s Turner Prize Gets Serious

The major art prize for UK-based artists is back and this year’s edition…

Ayo Akinwande, Installation Deaf vs.Dumb, 2017. Photo: Obidike Okafor

Debut Lagos Biennial

The Biennale that Lives on the Edge

Nigeria’s largest city now has its own art biennale. Entitled “Living on the…

Installation by Pathy Tshindele, Musée National de Lubumbashi. Photo: Costa Tshinzam

5e Biennale de Lubumbashi

Éblouissements: une Biennale congolaise ambitieuse

La 5e édition de la Biennale de Lubumbashi s’étend du 7 octobre au…

Thania Petersen, Flamingo (detail), 2017. Backlit photographic print in lightbox Courtesy the artist and Everard Read, Cape Town

Photography at Zeitz MOCAA

Absence and Omission

Asserting black identity, photographers take center stage at the new museum in Cape…