Okwui Enwezor

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The curator and foundation director discusses showing art outside city centres and why she banned the word ‘offsite’ in her office

BY Róisín Tapponi AND Hoor Al Qasimi |

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

BY Róisín Tapponi |

Pablo Larios highlights the damaging effects of network fatigue in contemporary art 

 

BY Pablo Larios |

An epochal exhibition of the Ghanaian artist – the last curated by Okwui Enwezor – gives the Munich institution a new face

BY Jane Ure-Smith |

Can Ralph Rugoff’s ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’ exhibition address histories of narrow nationalism, fascism, and empire head-on?

BY Negar Azimi |

‘Wherever he is now, I know he is waiting for me. There is so much we did not have the time to address’

BY Simon Njami |

In style as well as substance, the late curator embodied a politics of inclusivity

BY Naomi Beckwith |

The Nomura Art Award, funded by a Japanese financial services company, is now the largest cash prize available in the arts

BY Frieze News Desk |

A tribute to the late curator and his belief in the primacy of documentation

BY Osei Bonsu |

A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’

BY Sean O'Toole |

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

BY Jörg Heiser |

Enwezor, who embraced a more pluralistic art history beyond the Euro-American canon, had been battling cancer for several years

BY Frieze News Desk |

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

BY Adriano Pedrosa |

‘The show singlehandedly thrust Africa back into the culture of global contemporary art.’

BY Kobena Mercer |

Art and culture have a role in describing the unevenness of the world: where do we go from here?

BY Amy Sherlock AND Pablo Larios |

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

In further news: declining UK museum visitors sees country fall in world rankings; first winner of Turner Prize, Malcolm Morley, dies at 86

Raqs Media Collective on their 2017, from a séance with an 18th century automaton-tiger to imagined conversations with Édouard Glissant

BY Raqs Media Collective |

Leading artists, museum curators, writers and critics to discuss the history of art and its continuing significance in contemporary practice

What makes us human

BY Amy Sherlock |