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Kenya Mon 06-02-2012

Gor Soudan & Paul Onditi's 'Another World is Possible'
By Zihan Kassam

‘Another World is Possible’ at Alliance Francaise is a contemporary exhibition in which two revolutionary Kenyan artists Gor Soudan and Paul Onditi reveal their diagnosis of humanity. What brought such sting...

International Mon 06-02-2012

Simon Coates and Ephrem Solomon Tegegn Dubai Art Residency & Exhibition Spawns Unique Creative Relationship
Press Release

In September 2011, English-born, Dubai-based artist Simon Coates and Ethiopian artist Ephrem Solomon Tegegn embarked on a joint artist-in-residency program at the Gallery of Light in the Dubai Community Theatre & Art Centre (DUCTAC).

International Wed 01-02-2012

MORTUARY ARTS in Africa & African Diaspora. A Call for Papers
Krydz Ikwuemesi

Funerals in Africa have never been a mere act of interment marked by rites of passage, but an important performance on the social stage conditioned by the incident and social perception of death.

South Africa Mon 30-01-2012

The New Colonials, Lithographs
The Artist Press

In these lithographs Diane Victor takes on the issue of China’s relationship to Africa. in the making of the prints a meeting of two perfectionists in the studio, Mark Attwood the master printer and Diane Victor the maestro is made.

International Wed 25-01-2012

The Politics of Exclusion: The Undue Fixation of Western-Based African Curators on Contemporary Africa Diaspora Artists-A Critique
Rikki Wemega-Kwawu

There is a phenomenon emerging in Europe and America as regards the curating of contemporary African art shows and the publication of surveys on the subject. It is without doubt that African artists living in the West are preferred and circulated well above...

International Mon 23-01-2012

Skoto Gallery at 20
by Geoffrey Jacques

To say the quality of the work shown at Skoto Gallery during these last twenty years is responsible for its success would be one obvious truth. There is, however, more to it than that.

South Africa Thu 19-01-2012

An Arts Renaissance in Johannesburg
Donna Bryson | Associated Press

Since apartheid ended in 1994, downtown Johannesburg has become a place for the arts, where business, residential and entertainment mix along with the races.