We facilitated three C& Critical Writing Workshops with amazing partners. The first in Kingston in collaboration with the Jamaica Art Society. This second an extensive online workshop in partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Institute of the Perez Art Museum, Miami. The third, in Santo Domingo in September, was kindly made possible by the Centro Cultural Banreservas. A big shout-out to all partners for their unwavering support and dedication! Thanks to you, we are able to provide even more critical content throughout our expansive C& network.

The C& Center of Unfinished Business continued to travel – with stops in Berlin, San Antonio, Texas, and Potsdam – while the library at our C& Nairobi Workspace and Reading Room is constantly growing and audiences love stopping by to read, work, or just hang out.

Launching the C& Collector’s Box came just in time to celebrate a decade of contemporary art and critical voices from Africa and the global Diaspora. Curated with care, this collectible set—available only in a series of thirty—features all C& and C&AL print issues, from our inaugural 2014 edition to the latest release in 2023.

It should go without saying that C& has also published many critical, seminal, and outstanding reviews, essays, and interviews online! All hosted on C& Magazine and C& América Latina Magazine, find some of your favorite texts below.

As a growing organization, these articles are only a tiny fraction of our enormously rich archive – an archive which has led to the award of a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of the C& Cyclopedia. This project will completely transform how C& audiences navigate, experience, and draw from the archive we have generated over the years. Set to launch in Fall 2025, the project will be a living digital archive designed to make C&‘s 10+ years of deep memory accessible, easy to use, and inspiring to engage with. Stay tuned…

We are grateful to be in such an auspicious position that we can offer a multitude of ideas grounded within a mission to uplift voices from Africa and the Diaspora across the global landscape. We are dedicated to bringing you, our audience, the most inspired and topical aspects of the global contemporary art world. We cannot do this without your support, of course. If you can, please consider a donation today to our growing platform. We rely on your generosity, which does more than fund an organization – it functions as an investment in a global artistic vision that champions creativity, challenges perceptions, and connects communities. We are profoundly thankful for your partnership.

MMK Tower
Tracing the Immeasurable Legacy of Elizabeth Catlett
Maria Ines Plaza Lazo bears witness to Catlett’s artistic skill and commitment to social justice in the late artist’s most comprehensive show to date.

In Conversation
Tatenda Chidora: Challenging Stereotypes about Men
Elisa Pierandrei talks to the photographer who wants to create a more diverse picture of masculinity – in between comfort and discomfort.

Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer, 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist.

Artist Portrait
Manyaku Mashilo: Intuition is the Place
Kim M Reynolds dives into the poetic work of multifaceted visual artist Manyaku Mashilo, encountering the possibility of invention.

Studio Visit
Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance
Marny Garcia Mommertz visits Anaïs Cheleux in her Guadeloupe studio to chat about sugar-cane syrup and her work at this year’s Off Biennale in Dakar.

“Auf Deutsch”
Sarah Ama Duah: A Journey Towards Building Contemporary Monuments
The artist purposefully contributes to the sculptural visibility of various Black narratives as part of Germany’s history and culture of remembrance.

And your favorite texts from C& América Latina Magazine you might want to revisit:

60th Venice Biennale
Hãhãwpuá Pavilion: the Community Is More Important Than the Work Itself
Glicéria Tupinambá, representing the Hãhãwpuá Pavilion, works with her community to challenge colonial narratives and address women’s rights.

Peru
Andean Eroticism and the Ancestral Tables of Sarhua
Venuca Evanán, a Lima-based artist, revitalizes the Tables of Sarhua tradition, blending modern materials and themes like eroticism. Through her collective, she highlights victims of repression and advocates for gender equality.

Olinda Tupinambá, Balance, 2020. Video installation composed of soil and seeds. Courtesy of the artist.

Amazon
Jota Mombaça investigates imbalanced water cycles in Germany and the Amazon
Jota Mombaça’s CCA exhibition connects Berlin’s wetlands to the Amazon, using submerged ceramics and inviting nature into the gallery.

60th Venice Biennale
A Journey into the Mind and Work of Julien Creuzet
Julien Creuzet weaves poetry, folklore, sound, and sculpture into installations exploring Black resistance, with whispers of olfactory elements and sound archives for the Venice Biennale.

Retrospective
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Charting Global Black Diasporic Geographies
The retrospective spans four decades, highlighting the Cuban artist’s sociopolitical work on Afro-Cuban religiosity, U.S. grief, and diaspora histories like Asian indentureship and Black migrant communities.