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César Schofield Cardoso, Perpetual Cycle from Rust series, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

“Afterlives of History”

Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso

Ana Nolasco explores César Schofield Cardoso’s work, examining Cabo Verde’s colonial past, memory, and the impact of global…

Performance by Seyi Adelekun, Healing Forest - An Ecology of Spiritual Herbalism, KLA ART 2024 (Photo credit: Ethel Aanyu)

Artistic Communities

Kampala Calling: The African and Diaspora Artists Flocking to Uganda

Anna Adima reflects on the embrace of community and resourcefulness despite infrastructural challenges in Kampala’s rapidly expanding artistic scene.

Unidigrazz, Meia riba kalxa, 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Chris Costa.

"Afterlives of History"

Unidigrazz: A Collective Practice and a Holding Place

The multifacted work of Unidigrazz invites us to revisit domestic scenes as a way to critically reclaim public space.

 
Wanini Kimemiah, Namanga Yellows, 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship: Wanini Kimemiah

To Spring From Salted Earth

Fellow Wanini Kimemiah presents an editorial essay that introduces eight texts exploring the complex legacies of colonial histories in Kenya.

The Secret Apothecary by Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri.

C& x Stedelijk Editorial Fellowship

The Secret Apothecary

Cynthia Nyakiro Ngunjiri presents a visual art project in process featuring plant motifs inspired by her family’s generational knowledge of medicinal.

 
Cynthia Aurora Brannvall: The Threads that Bind … was on view March 30 - June 12, 2022 Cynthia Aurora Brannvall, The Threads That Bind a Nation, 2020. Vintage and antique textiles painted on stretched crinoline, white thread in long stitches. 36 × 58 in. Courtesy of the artist.

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MoAD Expands its Emerging Artists Program

A new grant will support a juried competition that selects four local Black artists per year for a solo show at the Museum of the African Diaspora.

ARTSPLIT App launches MOCONA – Auction for Art from Nigeria

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ARTSPLIT App launches MOCONA – Auction for Art from Nigeria

This first-of-its-kind auction, titled Ode to Mastery, will feature five prominent Nigerian artists who are key drivers of the contemporary art scene.

Globalisto. A Philosophy in flux.

Installation View

Globalisto. A Philosophy in flux.

The group show at MAMC+ invites artists who invent new worlds, question the status quo of the current modality and critique power systems.

Laboratoire Kontempo, Film still

In Conversation

Laboratoire Kontempo Embraces the Art of Conflict

The founders of the Kinshasa based art project speak about artistic complexities and concepts of the foreign.

Installation View of Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music at Belvedere, Vienna, 2022. Photo: Johannes Stoll, Courtesy of Österreichische Museum für Schwarze Unterhaltung und Black Music (ÖMSUBM).

Installation View

Austrian Museum for Black Entertainment and Black Music

The Museum gathers stories of Black artists and entertainers who rose to prominence in what has been a predominantly white entertainment industry.

El Hadji Sy, Installation View, Selebe Yoon, 2022.

Installation View

El Hadji Sy: Now / Naaw

El Hadji Sy's works, on view at Selebe Yoon in Dakar, are made with a variety of materials blurring boundaries between functionality and aesthetics.

Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.

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Sam Gilliam (1933-2022)

Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting, has passed away.

CCA Lagos, view From Front. Courtesy CCA Lagos.

Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos and Sotheby’s

Bisi Silva’s CCA Lagos is the Subject of a Major Revamp

With over 1 million dollars raised at a Sotheby’s CCA Lagos Benefit auction, one of Nigeria’s most respected art institutions is getting a major rehab

CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

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CAP Prize Announces 2022 Winners

Amina Kadous, Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela, Lee-Ann Olwage, Mahefa Dimbiniaina Randrianarivelo, and 
Pamela Tulizo…

Fondation Festival sur le Niger. Installation view at documenta fifteen, Kassel. Photo: C&

Installation View II

documenta fifteen

Ruangrupa takes lumbung as the starting point of documenta fifteen: principles of collectivity, resource building and equitable distribution.

The five visual artists shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award. Top row: Azza El Siddique (Ontario); Second row, from left: Tyshan Wright (Atlantic), Stanley Février (Quebec); Third row: Divya Mehra (Prairies & North); Bottom row: Krystle Silverfox (West Coast & Yukon).

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Five Artists Shortlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award

Representing the five regions of Canada, Tyshan Wright, Stanley Février, Azza El Siddique, Divya Mehra and Krystle Silverfox are listed for the prize.

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU

Gideon Appah’s Forgotten, Nudes, Landscapes: Remembering and Remaking

Gideon Appah paints between memory and fantasy, referencing a Ghana of the 1950s to 1980s, helping us – perhaps – to imagine a new vision.

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