August 2018 by Art Basel. After almost a decade spent working together, the two men reflect on their trajectory and share what they learned along the way.
12 August 2018 by Fisun Güner. A new book featuring five years of recorded conversations between South African artist William Kentridge and writer Denis Hirson traces twenty years of friendship against the backdrop of the rich visual heritage and political strife of Johannesburg.
14 August 2018, Lexi Manatakis features Samuel Fosso in her article about artists using drag in their works.
8 August 2018, Obidike Okafor speaks to Olumide Onadipe about how art has helped him be a better social commentator.
9 August 2018, Siddhartha Mitter looks at the work of John Akomfrah in light of his exhibition at the New Museum.
10 August 2018, Jasmine Weber reports that the artist’s candid event photographs demand the spotlight in his current exhibition in New York.
8 August 2018 by Jonathan Curiel. “After the Thrill Is Gone,” Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai’s exhibit at the Museum of the African Diaspora, tests the hopes and disappointments of post-Apartheid South Africa and neighboring Zimbabwe.
Zack Hatfield reviews Anna Boghiguian’s The Loom of History.
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.
