8 August 2018. When a gallery’s focus is set firmly on its relationships with its artists, magic is made, and that’s the secret to how Stevenson gallery is contributing to the growing success of the African art market by Sarah Browning-de Villiers.
8 August 2018, Robin Pogrebin looks at how a growing number of museums are addressing diversity with new urgency.
8 August 2018, Nana Oforiatta Ayim writes about ANO, a self-described “Institute of Arts & Knowledge” in Accra, Ghana, that since 2002 has presented exhibitions and educational programs in the city and organized roaming initiatives, including the Mobile Museum Project and The Cultural Encyclopaedia, a collective archive initiative devoted to past and present culture from around the African continent.
7 August 2018 by Laura Collinson. This October, Somerset House and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair will present new and rarely seen works from the internationally renowned South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga. In what will be his first major solo UK exhibition, Ruga will reveal a mythical world which challenges perceptions of cultural identity and parodies the construction of the South African nation-state, in the post-apartheid era.
8 August 2018, Melvyn Minnaar visits two exhibitions celebrating local art gallery Stevenson’s 15 years of existence.
7 August 2018, Victoria L. Valentine looks at the most recent addition to the art collection at The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
3 August 2018, Zaza Hlalethwa writes about the Leaders in Motion Academy (LIMA), South Africa’s first township film academy. The academy will provide a free, extensive 12-month programme for selected students to learn the industry’s basics.
7 August 2018, Misha Krynauw looks at the work of Lionel Davis at the occasion of a new his monograph, Awakenings – The Art of Lionel Davis.
3 August 2018, Pac Pobric looks at the British film-maker’s first US museum survey at the New Museum which shows that he is one of the most forceful and stirring artists of the day—and one of our best social archaeologists.