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.
Unpublished Africa’s fourth Women’s Month exhibition unites photographers from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt to spotlight empowerment and access within the African creative economy. Ruth Takele G Eyesus (Ethiopian), Reflection of Time. 2025 Unpublished Africa presented its fourth Women’s Month exhibition on 8 March 2026 at Baraza Media Lab in Nairobi. Titled ‘I’d Be Empowered If…’, the exhibition centres... Read more
A new site-specific textile installation examines coded knowledge, resistance, and memory through quilting traditions and natural-dye processes. Kapwani Kiwanga. Photographer: Angela Scamarcio...
Richard Vedelago appointed curator as the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy positions the pavilion within its ‘Nigeria...
The 61st International Art Exhibition brings together invited participants from across geographies, foregrounding relational affinities and transnational dialogue. Koyo Kouoh. Photographer: Mirjam...
More than 10,000 visitors attended the drive-through exhibition; the virtual experience remains accessible until 18 March 2026 Al Marmoom Exhibition. Courtesy of...
From periodic exhibition to year-round global platform, the third edition deepens institutional collaboration, curatorial experimentation, and the living study of Islamic heritage....
Reframing Icarus through Black cosmology, diasporic memory, and the spiritual labour of becoming Fahamu Pecou, 'Icarus', Montresso Art Foundation. Photographer: Mourad Boulhana...
Goethe-Institut and Grohs Family reveal shortlisted candidates for the fifth and final edition of the biennial prize. The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs...
Material Evolution and the Civic Language of Form in Riyadh Seddek Wassil, Glory is. © Suzette Bell-Roberts Since its launch in 2019...
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 positions procession as a methodology of movement, memory and transformation in a rapidly shifting Saudi Arabia Yussed...
