Critique

David Shrobe: Somewhere in Between

Decoding Black Materiality

David Shrobe is an artist’s artist, he is garnering interest from fellow contemporaries, Ebony. G Patterson, Nina Abney…

INTERFERENCE Tunis 2018

How Tunisians Reclaimed their Capital City with Light Art

Connecting contemporary art with architecture, INTERFERENCE is an international light art project in Tunisia that is transforming its…

'Slavery. The Prison Industrial Complex'

The LA exhibition attempting to re-humanize US prisons

With 22% of all the world's prisoners, the USA is the biggest jailer on the planet. A photography…

Kampala Art Biennale 2018

From Missionaries to Artists

The center of this year’s Kampala Art Biennale consists of seven studios where “master artists” set the tone…

Oxossi Ayofemi

Dark Matter: Addressing Notions of Blackness, Being, and Space.

Black Matter is an installation by Oxossi Ayofemi that brings together political aspects of Black life and the…

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Hello World: Complicating Notions of “Global Art”

Tasked with revising the collection of the Nationalgalerie with a non-Western focus, the exhibition Hello World at Hamburger…

A Silent Line Lives Here

Bronwyn Katz: Overcoming Boundaries in Poetic Ways

How to be visible both here and from elsewhere? How to bring out the elsewhere right here? These…

Les Ateliers Sahm

Le projet qui soutient des jeunes artistes congolais en Afrique

Les Ateliers Sahm faisaient partie des projets présentés dans le cadre du programme Off de la XIIIe édition…

Black Chronicles IV

Chronicling Black Lives in History

In April of this year, the British Association of Black Photographers initiated yet another edition of its internationally…

1er Douala Art Fair

Les promesses d’une première édition

Du 1er au 3 juin 2018 à Douala, capitale économique du Cameroun, s’est déroulée la toute première foire…

10th Berlin Biennale

We’re Not What You Think We’re Not

In contrast to most biennials, constructed from the vision and concept of a single artistic director, the 10th…

Axé Bahia

The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis

The book offers a comprehensive framework that combines history with cultural and art historical approaches, featuring vivid and…

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