During West Africa’s prolific era of portrait photography in the 1900s, Mama Casset emerged as one of Senegal’s pioneering figures. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When portrait photography first started to emerge from French West Africa in the early 1900s, it was almost exclusively Europeans who operated the cameras. Native subjects were prized for their exotic settings, unusual […]
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Heartwarming moments as Michelle Obama visits Nigerian-born Artist, Njideka Akunyili Crosby | Pulse
The U.S based Artist is one of the daughters of the late Dora Akunyili, who was the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control.
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Tutankhamen Head Sells for $6 Million, Despite Protests from Egypt | The New York Times
Christie’s said the sale was legal. But Egypt’s government says the antiquity was looted and should be returned.
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Legacy Russell Appointed Associate Curator at Studio Museum of Harlem | The Network Journal
Thelma Golden, chief curator at the Studio Museum of Harlem, today announced the appointment of Legacy Russell to serve as assistant curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum.
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Racism and Erasure in Fred Wilson’s Unearthed Histories | Hyperallergic
Wilson’s explicit reference to Africa expands the global network through which both cultural influences and African bodies were transmitted.
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Cannes Film Review: ‘I Am Not a Witch’ | Variety
Rungano Nyoni’s exciting if challenging debut is an impressionistic tale of superstition in a small Zambian community.
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First Look: Africa’s Biggest Contemporary Art Museum Opens in Cape Town | OkayAfrica
Today marks the beginning of the preview weekend for the new Zeitz Mocaa, a new contemporary African art museum on the Cape Town waterfront, meant to showcase work from the continent and its diaspora.
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Opening a window on Worcester’s past | The Boston Globe
WORCESTER – On a winter day around 1904, Raymond Schuyler perched on a sled with his wee daughter between his knees and posed with his children for a portrait. The only boy, standing behind his father, wears a big knit cap.
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In an Unused Harlem Church, a Towering Work of a ‘Genius’ | The New York Times
Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” is executing a monumental new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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NextGen: Judie Mozie’s Journey As an Emerging Artist Is an Example of Fearless Individuality | OkayAfrica
DIASPORA—Over the course of July we’ll be publishing short profiles, essays and interviews on the theme of “Afrofutures.” Together these stories will be a deep dive into the way African and diaspora thinkers, technologists and artists view a future for Africans in the world and outside of it.
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