Critique

A retrospective on Ibrahim El-Salahi

Le moderniste visionnaire et l’esprit d’entrepreneur

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist at Tate Modern constitutes an extensive retrospective of…

'Mécaniques des fluids'

“Is it imaginable for the two groups to meet on the horizon?”

The Cécile Fakhoury Gallery redesigned and transformed into a cinema with separate projection…

Julie Mehretu

Elle capture l’agitation fébrile de la vie urbaine d’une manière incroyablement convaincante.

'LIMINAL SQUARED' Julie Mehretu at White Cube 9 x 9 x 9 and…

A review by Sean O’Toole

Une somptueuse pagaille

A new series of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo highlights the role…

Installation view, Lemi Ghariokwu

Obidike Okafor on the art of Lemi Ghariokwu

Bien au-delà des pochettes de disques

Lemi Ghariokwu’s creativity goes beyond just album covers, as it stretches to other…

'Sentimental' in Paris

La Maison Revue Noire, au rythme des battements de cœur de Joel Andrianomearisoa

Sentimental, a six-month exhibition held at Maison Revue Noire from May 1st to…



Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House (2012). Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. Image courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO I BERLIN.

Theaster Gates at the MCA Chicago

Moments et Rituels Transitoires

The 13th Ballad, Theaster Gates adds a kind of postscript to his participation…

Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern

« Vos vérités sont évidentes. Les nôtres sont un mystère »

To ‘see through’, to gain perspective: Ellen Gallagher’s first retrospective in Great Britain…

Blackness in Venice

Le marchand de Venise

Sean O’Toole about the 'vu compra' and how artists re-imagine blackness

Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman ?, 2013 Vidéo, 11 min 57 sec © Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Performance artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji

‘Will I still carry water when I am a dead woman’

Our author Wana Udobang took part in one of the artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji's…



Greame Williams, 'Nelson Mandela mit Winnie Mandela as he is released from the Victor Vester Prison', 1990, Courtesy the artist © Greame Williams

“Rise and Fall of Apartheid" at the International Center for Photography

What does South Africa mean to Manhattan?

Author M. Neelika Jayawardane reviews the exhibition “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” in…

Art Dubai's Marker 2013

Art Dubai’s Marker 2013: A barometer for the African art market?

Curated by Bisi Silva, founding director of the CCA in Lagos, "Marker 2013"…