In Conversation with Alejandro Martín

Cali, Between Trauma And Hope

Over the past years, Museo La Tertulia in Cali has become one of the most original and important…

In Conversation with Zoe Samudzi

Blackness as a State of Matter

Zoe Samudzi has co-penned As Black as Resistance with William C. Anderson. In the book, they show the…

In Conversation with Dawoud Bey

Safe Spaces in the Dark

The essence of night is a central figure in Dawoud Bey’s latest exhibition. Night Coming Tenderly, Black takes…

In Conversation with Elle Pérez

Fearless Bodies and Identities in Elle Pérez’ Photography

Elle Pérez’ photographs are striking and mysterious, depicting people and places from very different worlds. The photographer from…

In Memorium

Alanna Lockward (1961 -2019)

The Dominican author, curator and filmmaker Alanna Lockward died unexpectedly in Santo Domingo on January 7, 2019. She…

Installation view

12th Shanghai Biennale

Entitled Proregress, the 12th Shanghai biennale tasked 65 international artists to engage with the question of art in…

Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi on the Protection of Tap Water

The Possibility of Imagining Something New

His political involvement is fervent, his artistic work constantly investigating social and cultural politics. So for C& British artist, lecturer and writer Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi envisions a scenario for his adopted country South Africa, in which politicians and multi-corporates are held accountable for their actions whilst the general public might dare to dream of descent lives.

In Conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah

Traveling Through Unknown Territories

Larry Ossei-Mensah’s reputation in the US art scene is rapidly growing. With three well crafted exhibitions in the works, he is establishing himself as a curator with a rich and varied eye. His mining of the Midwestern art scene gives prominence to a particular demographic of artists with narratives that might not be seen elsewhere in the country. C& spoke with him about a recent series that opened at Jenkins Johnson Projects in NYC where he deconstructs Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” from unusual perspectives, as well as, other curatorial projects and his inaugural show at MoCAD as Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator.

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2018: The Year in Review

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Another year is coming to an end in which we have grown and expanded but not without your…

Another 68!

The Black Female Artists Who Pioneered Alternative Art Spaces in Mexico

Despite the 1968 rise of protests against the regime in Mexico, narratives of indigenous feminists and artists of…

Another 68!

Decolonize 1968! How to shift the Perspective of Collective Memory

In this article Peggy Piesche writes about how much the liberation ideas of 1968 owe to the anti-colonial…

In Conversation with Akinola Davies Jr.

“Colonialism in Britain is felt through the diasporas”

Entitled HOD, Akinola Davies Jr’s recent exhibition assembled a series of nonlinear films which explore Black historical memory,…

Es kotzt uns an – We are sick of it

Racism in the Art World: A Luta Continua

Racism is a recurrent subject in C&. The Western malaise permeates our entire lives and that includes the…

 

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