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14th Dakar Biennale: The OFF Program

To follow up on the 350 private initiatives that make up the "OFF", you can find the maps and a small selection here.

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Dak’Art Announces Theme and Program

With Ĩ Ndaffa, the fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale calls for the transmutation of concepts and the foundation of new meanings.

59th Venice Biennale

What a Uganda Pavilion in Venice Means to Ugandans

It has received a special mention for its inaugural pavilion in Venice, yet Uganda’s global art venture has just begun, writes author Gloria Kiconco.

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Concerned Members of the Namibian Arts Community: It is a One-dimensional Problematic Pavilion

We talked to the collective that is questioning the selection process and intentions of the first…

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Lauren Haynes Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Queens Museum

Haynes joins the Queens Museum from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to start in mid-July.

Les Ateliers de la Pensée

Forging Ecologies of Knowledge, in Between Arts and Sciences

The 4th Les ateliers de la Pensée brought together artists and intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora at the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations

59th Venice Biennale

Golden Lion to Simone Leigh and Sonia Boyce

The prestigious award goes to Leigh for her participation in the main show and to Boyce's British Pavilion, special mentions to Uganda and France.

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

Pavilions of France, Great Britain, Uganda and USA

Find some impressions of the pavilions and artists' work that have been honored at the 59th Venice Biennale here.

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Central Pavilion, Pavilions of Brasil, Suisse, South Africa and Ghana

Here we share some installation views of the art work we spotted during the opening week at the Pavilions of the 59th Venice Biennale.

Installation View: 59th Venice Biennale

The Milk of Dreams at Arsenale, Pavilion of Zimbabwe and Ocean Space

Here are some installation views of the 59th Venice Biennale taking place from 23 April to 27 November 2022 curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Full Ground

Tiwani Gallery Debuts in Lagos with Joy Labinjo Show

The London gallery opening is one of the several recent art highlights in the Nigerian capital including Yinka Shonibare’s newly launched foundation

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Turner Prize Announces Finalists in 2022

Among two other artists, Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan are on the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Carrie Mae Weems Investigates US History through James Baldwin

The US artist’s first solo and retrospective exhibition in Germany takes the name of a Baldwin essay and features a variety of media.

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Tobi Alexandra Falade: Inspired From (Un)Usual Spaces

The curator tells C& about an exhibition of Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s films, libraries as exhibition spaces, and Britain’s colonial legacy.

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Sonia Boyce Represents UK in Venice

Being the first Black woman to represent Britain, Boyce’s will show a multi-media installation comprising video, sound, wallpaper and sculptures.

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Gabrielle Camuset: Transforming the Narrative

The curator and researcher features three Moroccan artists in her current exhibition who challenge monotone perspectives of their country.

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Christine Eyene Joins LJMU and Tate Liverpool

The curator and art historian has been appointed Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.

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What Are the Stakes of Representing Art from Africa in Dubai?

As the first African-owned art gallery in the UAE, Efiɛ may have to interrogate existing cultural legacies in the region, writes Nantume Violet.

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Adji Dieye: Culture Lost and Learned by Heart

At ar/ge art, Adji Dieye shows works that began with archival research in Senegal to look at the country's post-independent situation.

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Fadzai Muchemwa Appointed Curator at National Gallery of Zimbabwe

Writer an Curator Fadzai Muchemwa will take the curatorial lead of Contemporary Art at one of Harare's oldest and most important art museums.

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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound

The first exhibition devoted to an Ivorian artist at MoMA presents Bouabré’s artworks from the 1970s until his death in 2014.

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James Baldwin in Istanbul: Art and Activism in Exile

While in Istanbul Baldwin used fierce artistry to unmask the USA’s façade as the custodian of freedom and democracy, explains curator Gürsoy Doğtaş.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré Receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Pioneering in sustainable architecture, Francis Kéré empowers and transforms communities through the process of his work.

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