Tag: art
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Throughout her career, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as an art form, putting her body at the center of events in space and time to engage with contemporary artistic, social,… more ›
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Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, defending… more ›
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Twenty years ago – following the opening of Documenta 11 – artist Carsten Höller and curator Jens Hoffman are supposed to have had a conversation which led to Hoffman coming… more ›
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A selection of the 25 shortlisted photographers for the Contemporary African Photography prize introduce their work. The CAP Prize is awarded annually to five photographers whose works were created on… more ›
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Let’s say you have a thing that generates cash flows of $1 million a year. A business, a rental building, a pile of credit card receivables, whatever. Let’s say you can… more ›
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Like so many Roblox players, digital artist Everest Pipkin has their own abandoned birthday world. Last year, when the pandemic made in-person gatherings impossible, Pipkin downloaded Roblox Studio, the platform’s… more ›
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It’s hard to describe Factory TikTok as just one type of video, but each clip — in its own way — offers a strange glimpse into how mundane objects are… more ›
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“I have made myself a vessel for higher powers to work through me, I have opened up my heart” https://nataal.com/lunga-ntila more ›
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What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is to… more ›
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“After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,” he says, “it changed the history of modern art.” This is no hyperbole. It immediately led Picasso to repaint Les Demoiselles… more ›