23 January 2020, The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures, were looted in 1897. After a chance encounter, two men made it their mission to return them by Alex Marshall.
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17 January 2020, The 2010s not only saw the rise of new and urgent social movements – #BlackLivesMatter, Occupy, #FeesMustFall, Extinction Rebellion, #MeToo – it also witnessed the emergence of a generation of bold artists, new art fairs, photo-sharing apps and a journey’s end for this short century’s most thrilling curator, writes Sean O’Toole.
16 January 2020, In the wake of initiatives to repatriate Africa’s stolen property, the author of this letter asks the French President to repair what his ancestors have broken, before attempting to restore the war trophies of colonial conquest by Manthia Diawara.
13 January 2020, The time is ripe for artists and curators to reconfigure what can actually be done within the walls of a museum by Clémentine Deliss.
13 January 2020, Yinka Shonibare talks about his project spaces in London and Nigeria and Africa’s untapped artistic potential.
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, The landmark report was about more than just an exchange of objects by Naomi Rea.
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.