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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 -
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 -
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
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 -
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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 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)
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 -
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 -
‘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 -
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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'
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 -
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
