Category: Art
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Benin Art: Yesterday and Today, Palais de la Marina, Cotonou, February-May 2022
A major exhibition marking the return of 26 artworks stolen from Benin 130 years ago by French colonial forces opened to the public at the Palais de la Marina, Cotonou, on 19 February 2022. The exhibits at the centre of the presentation constitute the first tranche of selected historic artworks and sacred objects identified for […]
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Barbara Walker: Place, Space and Who
The highlight of a recent trip to Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent, was viewing the exhibition “Place, Space and Who” (18 May – 26 September 2021) by British figurative artist Barbara Walker during its final week on display. This engaging portraiture exhibition featured a series of larger-than-life-sized images of five women and girls from Kent’s […]
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Theaster Gates will design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion in London
Chicago-born contemporary visual artist and arts scholar Theaster Gates has been commissioned to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London. Since its inception in 2000, the majority of prior pavilion commissions have been awarded to architects. So, Gates makes history as the first artist to receive a solo commission, following only two other […]
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New Museum Online Event: Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work
Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) was an internationally renowned, Nigerian-American curator, art theorist and political scientist, whose scholarship and portfolio of major projects were the focus of a recent discussion: “Meeting Worlds – On Okwui Enwezor’s Work,” hosted online by the New Museum, New York, 21 January 2021.
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“Curating and Collecting Anti-Racism?”: An Online Conversation (RCMC Event)
Dr Carol Ann Dixon’s review of the recent webinar on “Collecting and Curating Anti-Racism” – hosted online by the Research Centre for Material Culture (RCMC), Amsterdam, on 19th November 2020. This overview summarises and critiques the guest presentations given by curators Antonia Alampi, Paul Goodwin and Ming Tiampo, in conversation with RCMC staff Amal Alhaag, Wayne Modest and Priya Swamy.
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