Editorial

Baloji, Augure, Film Still, Production Wrong Men, 2023.

In Conversation

Baloji and the Art of Averting the Evil Eye

Musician, filmmaker, and multitalented artist Baloji talks to C& about his first feature film and his connection with the diaspora.

Critical Writing Workshop Lagos, 2015. Photo: Aderimi Adgebite

Cultural Funding

Unheard Voices: Arts and Culture Journalism in Nigeria

Cultural coverage in Nigeria is presently limited, writes Obidike Okafor, and that corresponds with scarce training and income opportunities for such

Ligia Lewis
“minor matter”
Performance Space New York
New York, N.Y.
May 21, 2019
Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes

Retrospective

Ligia Lewis: Complaint, A Lyric

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, is showing a retrospective of seven pieces by artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis from November 15 to 19.

Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Sonnet of Vermin, 2022. Photo by Claudia López Terroso.

News

Toronto Biennial Announces Preliminary List of Artists, Partners, and Sponsors

Curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López reveal their first pick of artists for the 3rd edition of the Toronto Biennial running in Fall 2024.

John Akomfrah: “If there is a problem with hybridity, for me, it is that it participates in this hierarchization of the world”

C&10

John Akomfrah: “If there is a problem with hybridity, for me, it is that it participates in this hierarchization of the world”

It's still C&10 and we retrieved another treasure from our archive: a conversation…

(clockwise) Kisha and LaDarayon by Gilleam Trapenberg; Diena by Alexandre Silberman; Chotu Lal Upside-down by Carl Francois van der Linde; me nana fie by Serena Brown; Shaun Ryder by Jake Green.

News

Winners of Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 Announced

The prestigious prize 2023 goes to Alexandre Silberman, Gilleam Trapenberg, Jake Green, Carl Francois van der Linde, and Serena Brown.

Seeds and Souls

Installation View

Seeds and Souls

The exhibition in Copenhagen proposes new explorations into the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences.

(left) Christelle Oyiri. Photo: Lucid Interval; (right) Christelle Oyiri, Gentle Battle, 2022, installation view, Tramway, Glasgow

News

Christelle Oyiri Awarded PONTOPREIS MMK 2024

Paris-based interdisciplinary artist and Djane Christelle Oyiri is honored for her clear and free observations of everyday life.

Benediction, 2023, by Daniel Arnan Quarshie. Presented by Gallery 1957

News

ART X Lagos Announces Theme and Program for 2023

A wide-ranging fair programme features special exhibitions, ART X Live! and ART X Talks, and the debut of ART X Cinema to be held from 2-5 November.

Mário Macilau, A candle man, from Faith series, 2018. Courtesy of Ed Cross.

News

Mário Macilau Receives James Barnor Photography Prize 2023

Mário Macilau has been awarded the prestigious prize for his series Faith documenting the practice of animism in contemporary Mozambique.

Installation View

The BENIN BRONZES Roundtables

The Return of the Benin Bronzes: Part of the Past or Pathway to the Future?

Agwu Enekwachi recently participated in a roundtable discussion in Abuja on the impetus and action around the promised return of the Benin Bronzes.

Thelma Golden.Photo: Julie Skarratt. Courtesy of LACMA.

News

Thelma Golden Wins Gish Prize 2023

The 30th Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize goes to Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

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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