issue 236

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Founded by Ibrahim Mahama, Red Clay, Savannah Centre For Contemporary Art and Nkrumah Volini offer space for interrogation and artistic change by repurposing Ghana’s history

BY Gameli Hamelo | 22 AUG 23

One of the longest running art institutions in Ghana, founded in 2006, thrives by building networks between artists and the local community

BY Amah-Rose Abrams | 15 AUG 23

The gallery, based in Accra and London, aims to connect local and international artists amidst a critical and commercial surge of interest in Ghana

BY Osman Can Yerebakan | 08 AUG 23

By basing themselves outside of Accra, Nuku Studio provides space and time for Ghanaian and international photographers to develop their craft

BY Vanessa Peterson | 01 AUG 23

All-female parties, discos for listening and the Saudi histories of the dancefloor

BY Nadine Khalil AND Zahra Bundakji | 25 JUL 23

Works from the poet’s forthcoming book Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return take on a life of their own

BY CAConrad | 21 JUL 23

Using gay print magazines, the artist makes collages that imagine intersectional queer communities

BY Cassie Packard | 11 JUL 23

The artworks of Remedios Varo, Louise Bourgeois, Mat Collishaw and Rut Blees Luxemburg offer a portrait of the artists' sleepless nights

BY Chloe Aridjis | 03 JUL 23

The DJ and writer shares a selection of his favourite electronic music tracks that help him contemplate the ‘slipperiness of time’

BY Paul Purgas | 30 JUN 23

The DJ and writer experiments with electronic music and rethinks the meaning of a ‘sonic archive’ upon discovering tapes at the National Institute of Design

BY Edna Bonhomme | 27 JUN 23

The artist and theorist share their thoughts on their intellectual work of interrogating legacies of slavery and anti-Black violence

BY Torkwase Dyson AND Christina Sharpe | 23 JUN 23

The poet and critic Simone White considers the artist’s formative work Mirror Mirror (1987–88)

BY Simone White | 20 JUN 23

In anticipation of the artist’s forthcoming book to be published in 2024 with Dia Art Foundation, frieze presents an extract of Nengudi’s exuberant prose

BY Senga Nengudi | 13 JUN 23

On the centenary of the photographer’s birth, an outtake of his iconic portrait of William Casby, a self-conscious image captured alongside five generations of his family

BY Brian Dillon | 09 JUN 23

With major shows at MCA, Chicago and Hauser & Wirth London, the artist assesses his past, present and future

BY Travis Diehl | 07 JUN 23

Despite good intentions, a polyvocal exhibition at MACAAL, Marrakesh, reaffirms the Malagasy artist as the star of the show

BY Chloe Stead | 11 MAY 23

Featuring a quintet of Italian artists, a group show at Mai 36, Zurich, makes the case for more unsettled and uncomfortable aesthetic forms

BY Paolo Baggi | 10 MAY 23

For her first solo show dedicated to ceramics, the artist creates a mosaic of free-wheeling motifs from rudimentary forms

BY Louise Long | 10 MAY 23

At Arario Gallery, Seoul, new and reformulated installations and photographs by the artist track the non-meaning generated by financial markets

 

BY Park Jaeyong | 09 MAY 23

A major retrospective of the artist’s hard-to-define work evidences her shapeshifting nature

BY Mitch Speed | 28 APR 23