18 December 2019, Fully organised and created by Africans, and featuring the continent’s finest contemporary artists, a touring exhibition is marking a bold new dawn by Joshua Surtees.
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14 December 2019, Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately by Alan Gilbert.
December 2019, Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed. Lessons from the struggle to update the Royal Museum for Central Africa, outside Brussels by Adam Hochschild.
11 December 2019, FotoFest has revealed the artists participating in its upcoming biennial, “African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other,” taking place in Houston from March 8 to April 19, 2020. By ARTFORUM
11 December 2019, The landmark report was about more than just an exchange of objects by Naomi Rea.
9 December 2019, Weeks after a nationwide state of emergency is lifted, Mali’s capital hosts more than 85 artists from across Africa in 15 city-wide venues for its extensive festival by Tom Seymour.
3 December 2019, With a trip to the Untitled fair in Miami, Addis Fine Art adds to the connections it’s building between Ethiopian artists and the rest of the world by Ginanne Brownell Mitic.
29 November 2019, The newspaper is looking for information on Benin bronzes held in small institutions around the UK by Naomi Rea.
8 November 2019, In her first major solo show in London, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings recall the all too familiar diasporic experience of being foreign in both places you call home by Lizzy Vartanian Collier.
25 November 2019, The provocative and politically prescient exhibition grapples with hard truths and traumatic histories by Kojo Abudu.
24 November 2019, In The New York Times feature, “The Decade in Culture”, Roberta Smith looks at how the greatness of black visual culture, past and present, mainstream and outsider, was repeatedly asserted during the 2010s, by Roberta Smith.
23 November 2019, The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo will officially inaugurate a new national museum in Kinshasa on Saturday by BBC News.