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  • Congoville

    Congoville

    Middelheim Museum 8.4.2021 Both the Middelheim Museum and the University of Antwerp are situated where the Colonial College was founded in 1920. Exactly... Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas, Farewell Uncle Tom, 1971/2007

    Off the Record

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 2.4.2021 Historical, documentary, state, and other records became the collectively accepted communicators of “truth” through their perceived objectivity and comprehensiveness. They... Read more
  • Emmanuel Taku, My Brother's Keeper (2020). Mixed media. Courtesy the artist and Noldor Artist Residency.

    Ghana’s Noldor Residency Draws Artists to Former Pharmaceutical Factory

    Ocula 24.3.2021 By Sam Gaskin for Ocula Year-long junior and senior fellowships have been added to the residency program launched last year... Read more
  • Why artist Hank Willis Thomas smashed up ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’s’ General Lee

    Why artist Hank Willis Thomas smashed up ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’s’ General Lee

    The Los Angeles Times 18.3.2021 Carolina A. Miranda for The Los Angeles Times There’s been an accident. That’s what may enter your mind when you... Read more
  • Kwesi Botchway, Rebel Gaze, 2020

    Wake-up Call Blijven liggen / laten staan

    4.3.2021 Thanks to an invitation by Philippe Van Cauteren, director of the S.M.A.K., Ghent, we (Lieze Eneman, Luk Lambrecht, Gert Robijns)... Read more
  • Manuel Mathieu's Mournful Abstractions

    Manuel Mathieu's Mournful Abstractions

    Frieze 3.3.2021 At the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the artist moves between colourful figuration and abstraction to capture the experiences of... Read more
  • HBO Documentary "Black Art: In the Absence of Light"

    HBO Documentary "Black Art: In the Absence of Light"

    HBO 4.2.2021 “The American canon is not complete without it.” #BlackArtHBO ​, a new documentary that illuminates the contributions that Black artists... Read more
  • Top 10 des œuvres d'art contemporain dans l'espace public

    Top 10 des œuvres d'art contemporain dans l'espace public

    Que faire à Paris 30.1.2021 Qu'elles soient monumentales ou discrètement nichées dans les recoins de la ville, les œuvres d'art contemporain sont partout... Read more
  • Les profondeurs de la surface

    Les profondeurs de la surface

    La Libre 23.1.2021 Gwennaëlle Gribaumont pour La Libre - 20 Janvier 2021 Ron Gorchov et Otis Jones rejettent tous deux la toile conventionnelle... Read more
  • At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas

    At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas

    Wallpaper* 15.1.2021 At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas Pei Ru Keh - Wallpaper* - 15 January 2021 In our ongoing ‘At... Read more
  • A Racial Equity Monument, From Hank Willis Thomas, Is Set for Boston

    A Racial Equity Monument, From Hank Willis Thomas, Is Set for Boston

    The New York Times 14.1.2021 Sophie Haigney for The New York Times - 14 January 2021 The memorial, called “The Embrace” and designed by Thomas... Read more
  • Titus Kaphar Explored Renaissance Christian Imagery and Presented a Black Jesus Painting in a Deconsecrated Church in Brussels

    Titus Kaphar Explored Renaissance Christian Imagery and Presented a Black Jesus Painting in a Deconsecrated Church in Brussels

    Culture Type 26.12.2020 Victoria L. Valentine - Culture Type - 26 December 2020 A DECONSECRATED CHURCH in Brussels, Belgium, served as the venue... Read more
  • Le MBAM acquiert cinq nouvelles œuvres

    Le MBAM acquiert cinq nouvelles œuvres

    La Presse 17.12.2020 Poursuivant un usage, débuté il y a quelques années, de mieux représenter la diversité de la famille artistique au sein... Read more
  • The Black Jigsaw Project: Crafting Puzzles To Champion Black And Queer Artistry

    The Black Jigsaw Project: Crafting Puzzles To Champion Black And Queer Artistry

    Vogue 17.12.2020 With an aim to eulogise Black Queer art, Vogue spoke to MQBMBQ’s founder Jordan Anderson about The Black Jigsaw Project... Read more
  • Kwesi Botchway’s Defiant Figures Examine the Black Experience

    Kwesi Botchway’s Defiant Figures Examine the Black Experience

    Frieze 11.12.2020 The Ghanaian artist explores Stuart Hall's theory that cultural identity 'belongs as much to the future as it does to... Read more
  • Power 100 ArtReview

    Power 100 ArtReview

    4.12.2020 BMW Group Culture presents the annual ranking of the most influential people in art. Discover the full list here .... Read more
  • Cultural Memory and Contemporary Upheavals

    Cultural Memory and Contemporary Upheavals

    Cultural Memory and Contemporary Upheavals 2.12.2020 Cultural Memory and Contemporary Upheavals: A Conversation with ICA Miami Curator Gean Moreno Join Lyle Ashton Harris in conversation with... Read more
  • Ghanaian Artist Kwesi Botchway Revels in the Many Colors of Blackness

    Ghanaian Artist Kwesi Botchway Revels in the Many Colors of Blackness

    Vogue 1.12.2020 Grace Edquist for Vogue A woman sits on a blue stool, chin resting on clasped hands, elbows on crossed knees,... Read more
  • Lockdown: Francesco Clemente has reinvented himself in an extraordinary way

    Lockdown: Francesco Clemente has reinvented himself in an extraordinary way

    Judith Benhamou Reports 18.11.2020 Judith Benhamou Reports - November 2020 A star in New York With enough experience, if not years, in the art... Read more
  • Artist Titus Kaphar Is Creating a New Artistic Canon

    Artist Titus Kaphar Is Creating a New Artistic Canon

    The Wall Street Journal 15.11.2020 Through work that confronts history and illuminates the Black experience, Kaphar is breaking the mold for art nonprofits at his... Read more
  • In Conversation: Hank Willis Thomas and Bomani Jones

    In Conversation: Hank Willis Thomas and Bomani Jones

    Phillips Talks 12.11.2020 Join the conversation on November 12, 2020, 5:30-6:30 pm (EST) via Zoom As a follow up to their article in... Read more
  • A trove of old Ektachrome slides shows artists, friends and lovers in the 1980s and '90s

    A trove of old Ektachrome slides shows artists, friends and lovers in the 1980s and '90s

    CNN 6.11.2020 Jacqui Palumbo for CNN - 6 November 2020 When Lyle Ashton Harris' grandfather passed away, he and his brother inherited... Read more
  • This Is America | Art USA Today

    This Is America | Art USA Today

    Kunsthal Kade 26.9.2020 On 3 November 2020, Americans go to the polls to elect their new president: either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.... Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas Asks And Answers America’s Toughest Questions About Race At Cincinnati Art Museum

    Hank Willis Thomas Asks And Answers America’s Toughest Questions About Race At Cincinnati Art Museum

    Forbes 23.9.2020 Chadd Todd for Forbes Every single one of Hank Willis Thomas’ searing artworks on view now at the Cincinnati Art... Read more
  • Manuel Mathieu arrive au MBAM

    Manuel Mathieu arrive au MBAM

    Le Devoir 16.9.2020 Caroline Monpetit pour Le Devoir Manuel Mathieu est fasciné par le jeu de thaumatrope, qui permet, par une illusion d’optique,... Read more
  • Sean Pressley for The New York Times

    A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes

    The New York Times 15.9.2020 In 1860, the Wide Awakes mobilized against slavery and for Abraham Lincoln. A new collective is tapping into their spirit... Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    MoMA 15.9.2020 The artist reimagines Alfred H. Barr’s “Cubism and Abstract Art” diagram. by Hank Willis Thomas and Sarah Meister for MoMA... Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas, “First stages” (2018), from Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot, screen print on retroreflective vinyl with aluminum backing, photograph of Wilmington riots and National Guard occupation by Frank Fahey, 1968 (courtesy of the News Journal), text from Northeast Conservation Association, Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot, c. 1960s (courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society), 62 x 48 inches; commissioned by the Delaware Art Museum (© Hank Willis Thomas; all images courtesy the artist and Delaware Art Museum)

    Hank Willis Thomas on Black Survival Guide and Creative Civic Action

    Hyperallergic 21.8.2020 Thomas and fellow artist Ebony Brown talk about interdependence and How to Live Through a Police Riot, an archival handbook... Read more
  • RON GORCHOV (1930–2020)

    RON GORCHOV (1930–2020)

    Artforum 19.8.2020 American painter Ron Gorchov, whose saddle-shaped canvases challenged formalist notions of opticality, has died at age ninety in New York... Read more
  • Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2020. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

    World Discovered Under Other Skies at The Power Plant

    The Power Plant 14.8.2020 Manuel Mathieu is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. His work reflects on our intertwined... Read more
  • Photo: John Dennis. Courtesy NXTHVN and Gagosian.

    ‘It’s Not a Side Project, It’s Part of My Practice’

    Artnet 10.8.2020 ‘It’s Not a Side Project, It’s Part of My Practice’: Artist Titus Kaphar Is Expanding His New Haven Nonprofit—With a... Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas, An All Colored Cast, 2019. Photo by Badir McCleary.

    Black One Shot 12.3

    ASAP Journal 6.8.2020 Black One Shot stages brevity and precision in response to the art of blackness, contemporary and/or prescient. At 1000 words... Read more
  • The sculpture, "All Power to All People," is on the Atlanta BeltLine's Eastside Trail through August 13. (Photo by Ryan Purcell)

    Hank Willis Thomas sculpture “All Power to All People” stokes conversations on race

    Artsatl 6.8.2020 Gail O' Neill for Artsatl When Hank Willis Thomas’ 28–foot–tall, 7,000–pound sculpture All Power to All People went up on... Read more
  • Retrospective at the Cincinnati Art Museum

    Retrospective at the Cincinnati Art Museum

    MutualArt 30.7.2020 The Cincinnati Art Museum is honored to present the first major retrospective of leading contemporary artist Hank Willis Thomas (American,... Read more
  • The work will not be complete in our lifetime

    The Guardian 30.7.2020 The artist talks about the Black Lives Matter movement, his latest timely sculpture and why it’s more important than ever... Read more
  • Fondation Phi: la richesse de l’hybridité

    Fondation Phi: la richesse de l’hybridité

    La Presse 23.7.2020 En phase avec les préoccupations sociales et artistiques actuelles, la Fondation Phi présente, jusqu’à la fin de novembre, l’exposition Relations... Read more
  • History Is Waiting to Be Told

    History Is Waiting to Be Told

    Artnet 15.7.2020 ‘History Is Waiting to Be Told’: Hank Willis Thomas on How Artists Can Reshape the Narrative of the United States... Read more
  • Art can help the public engage in personal advocacy

    Art can help the public engage in personal advocacy

    The Art Newspaper 3.7.2020 Art can help the public engage in personal advocacy: Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign Hilarie Sheets for... Read more
  • Reading the poem that accompanies Analogous Colors

    Reading the poem that accompanies Analogous Colors

    CBC 19.6.2020 Tom Power interviews Titus Kaphar for CBC - 19 June 2020 Titus Kaphar reads the poem that accompanies his painting,... Read more
  • What should our monuments of the future look like?

    What should our monuments of the future look like?

    CNN 17.6.2020 Hank Willis Thomas for CNN Monuments are critical tools in shaping the values and identity of society. Most of what... Read more
  • The Story Behind TIME’s George Floyd Cover

    The Story Behind TIME’s George Floyd Cover

    P. W. Pine for TIME 4.6.2020 For the June 15, 2020, cover on the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd , we turned to prominent... Read more
  • Artists must 'order chaos'

    Artists must 'order chaos'

    CNN 2.6.2020 Christiane Amanpour speaks with artist Eric Fischl about painting under lockdown, his new work 'American Hula,' and his fears for... Read more
  • Portrait of Lyle Ashton Harris, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui.

    In Conversation with McKenzie Wark

    Brooklyn Rail 1.6.2020 “What was that guiding force that actually guided or hovered over the archive, that’s not only about me, but is... Read more
  • Nach uns die Sintflut at Kunst Haus Wien

    Nach uns die Sintflut at Kunst Haus Wien

    Kunst Haus Wien 22.5.2020 As a Green Museum, KUNST HAUS WIEN regularly dedicates major photographic presentations to key ecological themes. The main exhibition in... Read more
  • I see myself less as a sculptor than as an image maker

    I see myself less as a sculptor than as an image maker

    The Art Newspaper 19.5.2020 Paris. On that April day when we are talking on the phone, Tony Matelli works alone in his New York... Read more
  • RELATIONS: La diaspora et la peinture à la Fondation PHI

    RELATIONS: La diaspora et la peinture à la Fondation PHI

    Fondation PHI 15.5.2020 La Fondation PHI pour l'art contemporain présente RELATIONS: La diaspora et la peinture. Cette prochaine exposition collective explore les significations... Read more
  • Some of the world’s greatest artists photographed in lockdown by Maryam Eisler

    Some of the world’s greatest artists photographed in lockdown by Maryam Eisler

    LUX Magazine 12.5.2020 Darius Sanai for LUX magazine LUX Contributing Editor and artist Maryam Eisler has been photographing some of the world’s greatest... Read more
  • Titus Kaphar, Pushing Back the Light, 2012, Oil and tar on canvas

    Riffs and Relations Reframing Impressionism

    The Phillips Collection 16.4.2020 While The Phillips Collection is closed, The Experiment Station will be sharing some of the great artwork featured in Riffs... Read more
  • I want to bring these people back into technicolor

    I want to bring these people back into technicolor

    WeTransfer 9.4.2020 The way that Esiri Erheriene-Essi talks about images is very intense. They’ve always been prevalent in her life, whether she... Read more
  • Esiri Erheriene-Essi portrait by Sasha Bogojev

    A Most Present Future

    Juxtapoz Art & Culture 5.3.2020 By Sasha Bogojev It’s impossible to feel indifferent to the tasty work of London-born and Amsterdam-based painter Esiri Erheriene-Essi. And... Read more
  • Survivance: solo exhibition planned at MBAM

    Survivance: solo exhibition planned at MBAM

    Musée des Beaux Arts Montréal 15.1.2020 Survivance by Manuel Mathieu opens 19 September 2020 at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Manuel Mathieu is a... Read more
  • 8 Collectors and Curators Share the Art on Their Holiday Wish Lists

    8 Collectors and Curators Share the Art on Their Holiday Wish Lists

    Artsy 26.11.2019 Artsy - 26 November 2019 This holiday season, we caught up with collectors and art-world professionals to learn about the... Read more
  • Indian summer

    Indian summer

    De Groene Amsterdammer 30.10.2019 By Roos van der Lint De kunstenaars die genomineerd zijn voor de Prix de Rome 2019 zijn niet anders te... Read more
  • Studio Time: Esiri Erheriene-Essi Prepares for the Prix de Rome

    Studio Time: Esiri Erheriene-Essi Prepares for the Prix de Rome

    Juxtapoz Arts & Culture 22.10.2019 By Sasha Bogojev Esiri Erheriene-Essi , the Amsterdam-based artist whose work we fell in love after a viewing at Galerie... Read more
  • Decoding depictions of Eve in art and pop culture

    Decoding depictions of Eve in art and pop culture

    CNN 31.7.2019 Divinely inspired or otherwise, the Old Testament story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is deeply rooted... Read more
  • Deux ouvrages pour découvrir: l'oeuvre de Manuel Mathieu

    Deux ouvrages pour découvrir: l'oeuvre de Manuel Mathieu

    Le Nouvelliste 25.7.2019 Dans le cadre de l’édition du 25 juillet 2019 des « Jeudis de l’art contemporain », le peintre Manuel Mathieu... Read more
  • The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art

    The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art

    Pérez Art Museum Miami 18.7.2019 The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art is a thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what... Read more
  • Portrait of Justin Brice Guariglia. Pencil on Paper by Phong Bui.

    Art will play an increasingly critical role in the survival of our species.

    Brooklyn Rail 16.4.2019 Justin Brice Guariglia with Phong Bui for Brooklyn Rail Every now and then I meet an artist who has found... Read more
  • Visual Reclamation

    Visual Reclamation

    the Oxonian Review 1.3.2019 By Charlotte Figueroa for the Oxonian Review Titus Kaphar is a contemporary American painter whose work critically interacts with the... Read more
  • Jean-Michel's studio was closer, across the street from mine

    Jean-Michel's studio was closer, across the street from mine

    SALON 31.12.2018 Peter Elfert for SALON Broadway – the most famous street in New York. The lift whisks us upstairs. To the... Read more
  • Tavares Strachan Makes an Entrance

    Tavares Strachan Makes an Entrance

    Carnagie Museum of Pittsburg 30.12.2018 By Christina Rouvalis The 57th edition of the Carnegie International is front and center, thanks to two show-stopping works on... Read more
  • Cover: Martin Parr. Back Cover: Toiletpaper. ToiletMartin PaperParr, published by Damiani. Concept by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Special Guest @Martin Parr/Magnum Photos.

    Special Edition of Toiletpaper Magazine

    Artnet 20.3.2018 Naomi Rea for Artnet The Magnum photographer has chosen classic documentary images to complement the Italian artist's colorful close-up images.... Read more
  • Rencontre avec Mathieu Mercier, sur son aire de jeu au havre

    Rencontre avec Mathieu Mercier, sur son aire de jeu au havre

    Mowwgli 7.3.2018 Marie-Elisabeth de la Fresnaye pour Mowwgli Le Portique, centre d’art contemporain du Havre, a réouvert en 2017 triplant sa superficie... Read more
  • The Iceman Cometh: Guariglia flies with NASA to make eco-art

    The Iceman Cometh: Guariglia flies with NASA to make eco-art

    Art in America 12.9.2017 By Carol Strickland Justin Brice Guariglia works on thin ice. The forty-three-year-old former photojournalist, whose images of China have appeared... Read more

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