16 December 2020, A major new exhibition at Tate Britain in London puts the spotlight on Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, an artist who paints enigmatic Black characters of her own invention by Siddhartha Mitter.
2 December 2020, The photographer’s images of the L.G.B.T.I. community in South Africa put overlooked lives on display in a new career retrospective at Tate Modern in London. By Pumla Dineo Gqola.
8 November 2020, Monumental and full of grace, Zanele Muholi’s exquisite images of South Africa’s black LGBT and township communities are a magnificent act of solidarity by Laura Cumming.
4 November 2020, At Gallery 1957, Accra, the artist’s use of both Ghanaian Kente and Malian textile traditions ‘offers new possibilities for the exchange of cultural knowledge’ by Ayodeji Rotinwa.
30 September 2020, Wings of Change, the forthcoming New York debut of Billie Zangewa, will bring together a selection of the artist’s tender silk collages, which revel in Black domestic intimacy by Danilo Machado.
18 August 2020, South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga’s current exhibition at WHATIFTHEWORLD presents work in two techniques often associated with the aesthetics of church and home, by Jessica Hemmings.
2 September 2020, The nonprofit gallery will focus on contemporary art from Madagascar and other African countries, by Kate Brown.
31 August 2020, Naomi Rea speaks to the artist about her current projects and how a mountain retreat helped her find her way out of an artistic jam.
18 August 2020, As art exhibitions move online in response to the pandemic, art fairs feel the same as galleries, which feel the same as museums, which feel the same as Instagram. Why bother with differentiating? What is the relevance of so many structures doing the same thing? by Kirsty Cockerill.
13 August 2020, For some galleries and art events, the lockdown has accelerated their move towards a stronger online presence, by Malibongwe Tyilo.