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.
Amal Al Ali on Ahaad Alamoudi’s vibrant meditations on memory, development and Khaleeji visual culture. 09 April 2026 In ‘Sunkissed’ at Sharjah Art Foundation, Jeddah-based artist Ahaad Alamoudi threads humour, pop-cultural immediacy, and symbolic resonance into a compelling reflection on repetition, fatigue, and transformation in the Gulf. Bringing together newly commissioned and recent works, the exhibition probes how icons, technologies... Read more
Ladji Diaby reimagines collapse, care, and collective futures at Lafayette Anticipations. 9 April 2026 At Lafayette Anticipations, Ladji Diaby’s ‘Who’s gonna save...
Vanessa German reimagines histories of escape, community, and becoming at the Speed Art Museum. 9 April 2026 Opening at the Speed Art...
Afro-Puerto Rican photographers reclaim image, identity, and archive at Museo Afro Casa Silvana. 9 April 2026 Deyaneira Lucero Maldonado, “Guaraguao”, 2023 /...
Painting as pulse, rupture, and becoming in the Venezuelan artist’s latest London incursion 9 April 2026 The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)...
MADEYOULOOK maps land, memory, and resistance at Hangar 9 April 2026 At Lisbon’s Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística, the South African...
Reframing Langston Hughes through geography, memory, and movement. 9 April 2026 At the California African American Museum, ‘A New Song: Langston Hughes...
Reclaiming histories of Black queer resistance, culture, and political imagination 9 April 2026 Now open at the California African American Museum, 'Free...
Positioned between academic training and professional practice, the St. Elmo Arts Residency at the University of Texas at Austin offers a structured...
The Banff Centre’s thematic residency On Other Archives invites artists to engage archives as unstable terrains—where memory, absence, and inherited narratives are...
