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Installation View, Listen, Exhibition Opening. Courtesy of Goethe Institut / Alliance Française.

In Conversation

Listening to the Sounds of Nairobi

An artistic collective archives the capital’s soundscape. Here they speak about their motivations and how the tune of the city is constantly changing.

Virgil Abloh in Paris 2019

In Memoriam

Virgil Abloh (1980-2021)

The influential designer and artist has passed away at age 41 after to a long battle with cancer.

Swarm, courtesy of GLOR1A

Nine Nights: Channel B at ICA London

Do Androids Dream of Being Black?

Our author Liese Van Der Watt went to the exhibition that creates sonic and visual landscapes for Black futurism.

Samuel Nnorom Wins Cassirer Welz Award 2021

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Samuel Nnorom Wins Cassirer Welz Award 2021

The multi-talented artist seeks to explore several materials and will present a solo exhibition after a ten-week residency at the Bag Factory.

Kapwani Kiwanga, winner of Zurich Art Prize 2022. Photo: Bertille Chéret

News

The Zurich Art Prize 2022 Goes to Kapwani Kiwanga

The Canadian-French artist is the 15th winner of the renowned award that includes the production of a solo exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv.

Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Kabelo Malatsie with Robert Machiri

Collective Practices: A Sonic Essay

Arts Collaboratory commissioned Kabelo Malatsie to respond to their network and the outcome is a sonic essay with Zimbabwean artist Robert Machiri.

Rasheedah Phillips, Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt, 2021. Digital collage. © Rasheedah Phillips.

ARE YOU FOR REAL

ifa Presents New Work by Rasheedah Phillips

The artwork entitled Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt maps several destroyed historic all-Black…

The Red Affair (Detail), 2020, John Baptist Sekubulwa, Courtesy of artist.

Artist Portrait

Ugandan Artist John Baptist Sekubulwa Links Historical And Contemporary Pain

Relentlessly questioning political power relations, Sekubulwa chooses the image of the human brain to depict postcolonial vulnerability – and hope.

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing

Jennifer Packer: Confronting the Complex, the Ugly, and the Forbidden

The US painter uses the symbolism of flowers to remember violent losses within the Black community and create tender moments that embody the senses.

Kimberli Gant (left) and Stephanie Sparling Williams (right).
Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.

News

Brooklyn Museum Appoints Stephanie Sparling Williams and Kimberli Gant as Curators

The New York - Museum has made two major hires for American art and modern and contemporary art, to start in December and January.

Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Performance at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Sommerfest 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation

Three Namibian Artists on their Residency at Schloss Solitude

We talked to Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Hage Mukwendje, and Nesindano Namises about their approaches, methods, processes, and inspirations.

Jamillah James. Photo by Jasmine Clarke.

News

Jamillah James Named Senior Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

James sees herself as "advocate" for artists and starts her new role in Chicago early next year.

INVENTING YOUR OWN GAME

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Ecologies

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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