Writing Art History Since 2002
Tracing how political pressure, ecological collapse,
and urgent questions of visibility and care are
reshaping the future
Head of Research at Framer Framed Emily Shin-Jie Lee
reflects on how ‘Shapeshifters’ rethinks museological conventions,
foregrounds opacity and care, and gathers artists whose
practices challenge inherited colonial frameworks.
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator in The Robert
B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum
of Modern Art, reflects on archives, authorship, and
Pan-African imagination in Ideas of Africa.
Bringing together works that orbit around the sun as image, index,
and metaphor, curator Murtaza Vali offers a compelling lens
on ten years of experimentation at 421. SUN™ becomes
an elemental archive through which the region’s artistic
and ecological stories come into focus.
Ritual, memory and the slow work of liberation in Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s luminous new commission. 14 April 2026 At the Whitworth, Michaela Yearwood-Dan unfolds a space that feels at once devotional and defiantly intimate. ‘The Practice of Liberation’ marks the artist’s first institutional exhibition in the UK, a decisive moment that gathers painting, ceramics and sound into an immersive environment shaped... Read more
Tracing the pulse of Black British music across memory, migration and modernity 14 April 2026 At V&A East’s inaugural exhibition, ‘The Music...
Johny Pitts maps the poetics of being ‘Afropean’ through image, memory and encounter. 14 April 2026 At MEP Studio, Johny Pitts ‘Black...
Hajra Waheed at Kunstinstituut Melly. 14 April 2026 In ‘There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All’, Hajra...
A free, intensive professional development residency connecting artists to New York’s art ecosystem through mentorship, studio visits, and critical exchange. 14 April...
An international open call offering time, space, and resources for photographers and image-makers to develop new work in Syracuse, New York. 14...
Amal Al Ali on Ahaad Alamoudi’s vibrant meditations on memory, development and Khaleeji visual culture. 09 April 2026 In ‘Sunkissed’ at Sharjah...
Curator Yasmin Sarnefors on identity, opacity, and the shifting language of the portrait across Africa and its diaspora. 9 April 2026 In...
Exploring ritual, repetition, and ecological consciousness through practices rooted in care and process. 11 April 2026 Within ‘House of Galleries (Volume 11)’,...
Ladji Diaby reimagines collapse, care, and collective futures at Lafayette Anticipations. 9 April 2026 At Lafayette Anticipations, Ladji Diaby’s ‘Who’s gonna save...
