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C& x Académie des Traces
In collaboration with Académie des Traces, seven emerging scholars and museum professionals explore the traces of colonial heritage.
C& Center of Unfinished Business
From eighteenth-century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo to Johny Pitts’ twenty-first-century perspective via May Ayim.
Inside the Library
In this series, C& explores special book collections. This time, Keren Lasme shares her top five books from the queer-feminist space AWARE in Paris.
Dedicated to the emerging scene in Ghana, the final 5 are Sena Burgundy, Reginald Boateng, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Nana Frimpong Oduro, and Dela Anyah.
C& Education
March 27 – 29, 2025 New Orleans, USA
March 27 – 29, 2025
New Orleans, USA
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C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship
In her contribution, Mwende Ngao explores the complex relationship between urban life and nature in a rapidly developing Nairobi.
C& regularly takes a look into book collections holding rare publications. Keren Lasme chooses five books from the feminist library AWU in Dakar.
Year-in-Review
It has been another year of expanding networks, fostering dynamic collaborations, and producing exceptional art writing.
14th African Biennal of Photography
The continent's leading photography festival is a rallying cry for African self-reliance and a platform for new voices, writes Obidike Okafor.
The Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York will lead the next edition of documenta to be held from June 12 to September 19, 2027.
Additional prizes were awarded to Wilfried Vanie and Victor Adewale, with honorable mentions for Seyba Keita, Dior Thiam, and John Moussa Kalapo.
Our author Aaliyah Lauterkranz was inspired to write a poem by Hall's pioneering thinking in the context of identity.
Grant Announcement
Transforming how audiences engage with 10+ years of C& content with Mellon Foundation support.
A Limited Collection of all C& and C&AL Print Issues
We are thrilled to announce that the C& Collectors Box, until now only available to our Patreon members, is for sale!
The award honors artists driving social change and community work, including Sana Na N’Hada, Myrlande Constant, Rosa Chávez, and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi
Koyo Kouoh, director of Zeitz MOCAA, has been appointed to curate the main exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, which will open in spring 2026.
MACAAL reopens in February with a new permanent exhibition, showcasing one of the most comprehensive art collections on the continent and more.
INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME
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Inventing your own game
In the post-war period, many pioneering Black artists were largely neglected by the Western art world…
Inventing Your Own Game
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C& and C&AL invited organizations, artists, and activists from Black and Indigenous perspectives to discuss, contextualize, and reflect on the relationship between neocolonial structures and the climate crisis in their local contexts.
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This collaboration between the Académie des Traces and C& explores the traces of colonial…
From the C& Center of Unfinished Business reading room at Theatre RAMPE Stuttgart, Yeama…
In this series, C& explores special book collections. This time, Keren Lasme shares her…
Dedicated to the emerging scene in Ghana, the final 5 are Sena Burgundy, Reginald…
Formerly at Zeitz MOCAA, the curator is appointed to lead the Africa collection and…
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13.png)
