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The Revolutionary Tapestry of Nigerian Modernism

The exhibition showcases how Nigerian artists developed a postcolonial identity through diverse artistic expressions in the 20th century.

Film

fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou's best photograph

A living sculpture shows a motorcyclist carrying 21 satellite dishes, symbolizing overstimulation, fragmented direction, and postcolonial Moroccan identity seeking illusory futures.

Arts

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

2 months ago

M.F. Husain in Qatar: bridging Asia and the Arab world

M.F. Husain became India's leading modern artist, rooted in Indian traditions, later adopting Qatari citizenship and spending his final years abroad.

Photography

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

4 months ago

MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom

Studio portraiture in 1950s–60s West and Central Africa performed independence and shaped a transatlantic Black political imagination and identities.

fromenglish.elpais.com

7 months ago

Tsitsi Dangarembga: We are never completely free; we have moments of freedom'

I don't think we'll ever reach freedom. I think that it's a thing we sometimes get closer to, and sometimes we move further away from. Some people believe that freedom is an individual matter. And they may have a lived context that allows them to believe that they are free. But something always happens that makes it clear that we are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it.

Books