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.
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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.