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In Conversation

Uganda’s New Arts Center is One Step Closer to Completion

With its fundraising campaign ongoing, 32º East | Ugandan Arts Trust is nearing a new construction milestone. Nantume…

In Conversation

ruby onyinyechi amanze: Drawing the Elements, Choreographing Freedom

ruby onyinyechi amanze crafts intricate collaged drawings that look like moments of choreographed freedom and ecological…

Design in Westafrica 

Worldforming by Ghanaian Women in Architecture

For three generations of women born between Ghana’s independence in 1957 and the turn of the…

 

ABK Stuttgart

Heba Y.Amin New Professor for Digital and Time-Based Art

The ABK Stuttgart has filled the newly established professorship for Digital and Time-based Art with the…

New Art Prize

Entries open to Africa’s first Art Prize for Women: The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize

Gallery 1957 announced the launch of the first ever dedicated art prize for women artists living…

 
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New Gallery

Mariane Ibrahim Opens a Paris Space

Alongside Chicago, Paris marks the second location and the debut in Europe of…

Celebrating Female Pioneers

Where are the Women Image-Makers in African History?

On the occasion of International Women's Day, our author Ethel-Ruth Tawe looks toward…

White Label

How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters

Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BIPoC…

Berlin Biennale

Kader Attia Appointed as Curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

For over two decades, Kader Attia has worked with the concept of “repair” in his artistic practice.

Frieze New York

Precious Okoyomon wins 2021 Frieze Artist Award

For Frieze New York 2021, Okoyomon will present a performance-activated installation conceived specifically for The Shed.

In Conversation with Maxwell Alexandre

“There is a Future Changing the Imagination of Subalterity”

The boy who was born in 1990 stepped into his inline “blades” for…

Installation View

On Fait Des Dessins Dans La Terre

Eva Barois De Caevel curated a collective exhibition with works by Naomi Lulendo,…

Arts at CERN

Black Quantum Futurism Wins Collide Residency

Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips aka Black Quantum Futurism will complete the CERN…

In Memory of Rosemary Namuli Karuga and Kawira Mwirichia

The Legacies of Two Pioneering Female Artists Help Us Fill Kenya’s Historical Fractures

In the past few months two pioneering female Kenyan artists from different generations…

Black (Art) History Month

Looking at The Intersection of Time

While questions around time are currently occupying many, we rummaged through our archives…

In Conversation

Anta Helena Recke and Joana Tischkau on the German Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

C& spoke to the two founders of a new institution dedicated to Black…

In Memoriam

Rosemary Karuga (1928-2021)

On 10th February, Kenian pioneer artist Rosemary Karuga has passed away in the…

Inventing Your Own Game

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