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Sacred and Profane: Pamela Sneed and Carlos Martiel on Memory, Resistance and the Body
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (259+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Presented at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in collaboration with BOFFO, ‘Sacred and Profane’ brings Pamela Sneed and Carlos Martiel into a powerful dialogue about histories too often erased or left unspoken. The exhibition draws on religious…...
Amel Bashier: The Strength to Be Seen
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (149+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Sudanese artist Amel Bashier turns attention towards the women whose labour, resilience and presence sustain communities, yet whose contributions remain persistently overlooked. Opening at ZOLLAMT MMK in Frankfurt, ‘Essence of Life’ is Bashier’s first institutional solo…...
Colonialism Does Not End at Independence
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (959+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Suzette Bell-Roberts: ‘Postcolonial?’ resists a purely chronological narrative; what does this disruption allow you to reveal about colonialism that a linear history cannot? Kieran Burns: There is a chronological thread, particularly from 1945 to the present, but…...
Following the Light: Zohra Opoku???s Textiles of Memory and Becoming
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (175+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 In ‘We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight’, Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku brings together ten years of a practice shaped by movement, inheritance and the continual reconstruction of self. Presented at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape…...
Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956???1982
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (182+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 What does freedom look like when it is not simply won, but imagined into being? Opening at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, ‘Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982’ revisits a transformative period…...
Carrying History: The Art of the Nguni Diaspora
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (153+ words) Yale University Art Gallery traces movement, memory and cultural continuity across Southeast Africa through historic masterworks and contemporary voices. 2 September 2026 Opening this September, ‘Nguni: Migrant Nations of Southeast Africa’ brings a remarkable history of movement, artistic exchange and cultural resilience…...
Strangers, Aliens and the Possibility of Other Futures
1+ week, 14+ min ago (300+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Brendon Bell-Roberts: This exhibition features works from the past twenty-five years of your career. As you look back, what unexpected connections or conversations have you noticed between your earlier and more recent pieces? In ‘Trustful Strangers…...
Johny Pitts: The Banality of Blackness
1+ week, 5+ day ago (252+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Brendon Bell-Roberts: The title ‘Black Bricolage’ suggests building something from fragments, memories, and lived experiences. As an artist and as someone thinking through Black life in Europe, what does bricolage mean to you? This exhibition brings…...
Figures, Signs, Symbols: Reading the Many Languages of Jean-Michel Basquiat
1+ week, 6+ day ago (504+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Jean-Michel Basquiat transformed figures, words, symbols and cultural references into a visual language that continues to resist easy interpretation. ‘Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols’ at Pérez Art Museum Miami brings together ten works that invite a closer…...
Remembering the Sky: The Imagination of Freedom
2+ week, 3+ day ago (546+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 vanessa german: This came to me in a vision, and we accept that everything in the practise of making art is connected to everything else. Everything in the world is connected to everything else. Everything in…...