Outside the field of African art
Asking whether white people should curate African art anymore, may be outdated. Instead we should ask: what is African art now and does the category matter anymore?
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Drew Thompson
Drew Thompson is a writer and visual historian at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. He is also a contributing editor for Africa Is a Country.
Put your crown on your head
A new exhibit of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life and work explores the influences of his family and the African world on his visual sensibilities and identity.
Upsetting color and its representations
What is one particular place when represented photographically?
Painting personal histories
The painter Cassi Namoda situates herself squarely in the artistic history of Mozambique, especially its rich tradition of anticolonial photography, as she turns outwards to the world.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
Art and the politicization of African bodies
The painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi speaks to Drew Thompson about the evolution of her practice and how she locates herself in contemporary African art.
Painting Kenya’s power dynamics
The painter talks about how the distance between Nairobi and London allows him to take on topics at the heart of Kenya’s body politic.
Pan-Africanism and the African artist
Meleko Mokgosi’s multimedia works offer complex views of history and powerful critiques of pan-Africanism and the postcolonial moment we are currently living.
A photographer of African liberation
Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa’s liberation struggles.
David Goldblatt at the Centre Georges Pompidou
The South African photographer has a complicated place within his country’s photographic culture.
A Metaphorical Biography
Santu Mofokeng’s photographs keep you wanting to know who are these people, what’s their sophistications, and what’s going to happen to these aspirations?