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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 &...

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.

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.

International Tue 17-01-2012

The Market Photo Workshop Briefing Sessions
Press Release

The Market Photo Workshop will hold briefing sessions on Wednesday 18 January 2012 at 1pm for applicants wishing to enter either for the 2012 Women's Photography Mentorship or for the 2012 Media and Advocacy Photography Mentorship.

International Mon 16-01-2012

Yinka to exhibit in New York
James Cohan Gallery

British born, Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is exhibiting in New York at the James Cohan Gallery with new works in February (16) running through until March 24th.

International Mon 09-01-2012

Time is Love.5. An International Video Art Competition
Julie Crenn

Curated by Kisito Assangni, this show states multiple sufferings, tearings and impossibilities of rapprochement. If Time is Love.5 raises a dark portrait of the human feelings, lights of hopes live and resist nevertheless.

International Thu 05-01-2012

New Cultural & Creative Industries Portal FOMECC Launched in Spain
Pilar García

The Interarts Foundation has launched the FOMECC Portal a new website aimed at providing information and useful tools for this sector, with a special focus on Spain, Latin America and Africa.

International Mon 02-01-2012

A call for Entries: Africa Video Art
AfricanColours.com

ARTchSO association aims at promoting video art in the urban environment through its concept of Show Window : screening video artworks in the windows of shops and stores so that the artworks can reach a wide general public

International Mon 02-01-2012

Take Five: New director with African art focus launches Pulitzer into second decade
By Nancy Fowler

As an undergraduate studying art history at the University of Wisconsin, African art was hardly on the radar of Kristina Van Dyke, new director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

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