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Interference 2018. Claire Fontaine. Photo: Jennifer Braun

INTERFERENCE Tunis 2018

How Tunisians Reclaimed their Capital City with Light Art

Connecting contemporary art with architecture, INTERFERENCE is an international light art project in…

Chandra McCormick.

'Slavery. The Prison Industrial Complex'

The LA exhibition attempting to re-humanize US prisons

With 22% of all the world's prisoners, the USA is the biggest jailer…

Inside The Library (Studio Bili Bidjocka). Courtesy Kampala Art Biennale.

Kampala Art Biennale 2018

From Missionaries to Artists

The center of this year’s Kampala Art Biennale consists of seven studios where…

Exhibition view Hello World. Revision einer Sammlung / Colomental
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2018
© Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Thomas Bruns

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Hello World: Complicating Notions of “Global Art”

Tasked with revising the collection of the Nationalgalerie with a non-Western focus, the…

Exhibition view of Bronwyn Katz, “A silent line, lives here”, Palais de Tokyo (22.06 – 09.09.2018). Photo: André Morin. Sam Art Projects Resident, Courtesy of the artist and blank (Le Cap)

A Silent Line Lives Here

Bronwyn Katz: Overcoming Boundaries in Poetic Ways

How to be visible both here and from elsewhere? How to bring out…

ZED, Couleurs de Brazza, 2018. Courtesy the artist.

Les Ateliers Sahm

Le projet qui soutient des jeunes artistes congolais en Afrique

Les Ateliers Sahm faisaient partie des projets présentés dans le cadre du programme…

Members of the African Choir, London, 1891. By London Stereoscopic Company (left to right: Frances Gqoba; Katie Manye [later known as Katie Makanya]; Paul Xiniwe9 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Courtesy of Hulton Archive, and Autograph ABP, London. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Black Chronicles IV

Chronicling Black Lives in History

In April of this year, the British Association of Black Photographers initiated yet…

Ajarb Bernard Ategwa, Installation view at Douala Art Fair 2018 at Canal Olympia, Bessenguè. Photo: Peres Projects

1er Douala Art Fair

Les promesses d’une première édition

Du 1er au 3 juin 2018 à Douala, capitale économique du Cameroun, s’est…

Firelei Báez, For Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2018. Oil on canvas, Installation view, 10.Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin. Courtesy Firelei Báez, Kaci Gupta Gallery, Chicago. Photo: Timo Ohler

10th Berlin Biennale

We’re Not What You Think We’re Not

In contrast to most biennials, constructed from the vision and concept of a…

Helen Salomão, Full Boom, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Axé Bahia

The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis

The book offers a comprehensive framework that combines history with cultural and art…

Juan Andres Milanes Benito, Microwave for one, 2017. Photo: C&

Dak’Art 13 - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain

Creating New Realities through Experimentation

Entitled L’heure Rouge (The Red Hour), Dak’Art 13 has invited 75 artists from…

Firelei Báez, Untitled (detail), 2018. Photo: John Lusis. Courtesy the artist and Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.

“Joy Out of Fire”

The Powerful Women of Firelei Báez

In her polychrome murals, the Dominican artist revives forgotten images and depicts remarkable…