Wangechi Mutu, The End of eating Everything, 2014, Video animation, 8:10 minutes, Courtesy of the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Victoria Miro, London. Commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

Exhibition 

In the Black Fantastic – Group Show

Step into an immersive experience at the intersection of reality and fantasy worlds. In the Black Fantastic sh ...
Wangechi Mutu, In Two Canoe, 2022. Bronze, 180 × 68 × 72 in (457.2 × 172.7 × 182.9 cm). Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery. © Wangechi Mutu

Exhibition 

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined

The New Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), which wil ...
Guerrilla Girls, 3 White Women, 1 Woman Of Color And No Men Of Color-Out Of 71 Artists?(Detail), 1997. Paper, Offset print, 10,7 x 15 cm. © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln. Courtesy of the Museum Ludwig, Grafische Sammlung

In Conversation 

Eboa Itondo: “One of the biggest challenges lies in institutional staffing practice”

Contemporary And: Can you tell us about your professional background and how you developed your curatorial pra ...
Camille Turner, Nave, 2021-2022, 00:12:34 (H:M:S), three-channel 3840 x 2160 video installation. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, ON as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2022. Photo: Toni Hafkenschied. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.

News 

Camille Turner Receives TBA Artist Prize

The Toronto Biennial of Art (the Biennial/TBA) announced on March 25, during the opening celebration for its s ...
Afrofutourism – Group Show

Exhibition 

Afrofutourism – Group Show

Somi Nwandu curates a traveling exhibition series exploring reimagined African futures through the arts. Theme ...
Swarm, courtesy of GLOR1A

Nine Nights: Channel B at ICA London 

Do Androids Dream of Being Black?

Back in May 2020 when the UK was in the midst of its first lockdown and most people were getting antsy, angsty ...
Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Performance at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Sommerfest 2021. Courtesy the artist.

In Conversation 

Three Namibian Artists on their Residency at Schloss Solitude

Contemporary And: Could you briefly introduce yourselves and share how you each became an artist? Vitjitua Ndj ...
Daniel Kojo Schrade, Afronaut 3-19, 2019. Oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas 50 x 70 inches. Courtesy the artist.

"Auf Deutsch" 

Daniel Kojo Schrade: Broadening the Understanding of Diaspora

C&: Since 2008 you’ve been teaching at Hampshire College in Amherst, and you’ve taught in Germany ...
Shavasana I, 2019 and Shavasana II, 2019, Mama Ray, 2020, Crocodylus, 2020 © Wangechi Mutu. All rights reserved. Courtesy the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Exhibition 

Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?

Over the past two decades, Wangechi Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, ...
Moataz Nasr, The Mountain, 2016. Film Still. Courtesy the artist.

Exhibition 

Never Cross the Same River Twice – Group Show

Never Cross the Same River Twice, curated by French-Togolese independent curator Kisito Assangni and Greek-Bri ...
Alisha B. Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future. Part of Manifest Destiny, curated by Ingrid LaFleur. Image by Alessandra Ferrara, Courtesy of Library Street Collective, Detroit.

Black (Art) History Month 

Looking at The Intersection of Time

While it feels like through regulations the experience of time is covering, it is still experienced differentl ...
Image: Tamara Lorenz

Talks / Workshops 

BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM: Online Reading Sessions

Recent studies have shown that due to our increasingly digitized lifestyle we are losing focus after about eig ...

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