The other day, I looked up the word “ghetto” in the online Urban Dictionary, in order to get a sense of how the word is being used in the vernacular these days. While the definition provided there is ...
Installation view, Maurizio Cattelan, “HIM,” in the former Warsaw Ghetto (image via Center for Contemporary Art) Whether art still has the power to disrupt, offend, and shock is a well-worn topic in ...
What do the far-flung cities of Venice, Italy; Gwangju, South Korea; Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and Istanbul, Turkey have in common? They’re all sites of long-running, influential art biennials ...
It was all a glorious moment for Yakubu Kareem as he mounted his first solo exhibition in Lagos. The venue was the Signature Beyond Art Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos, where his ten outstanding works titled ...
Performances - in the real sense of it - not only involve actions aimed at achieving some result on the stage, but they must also be open to public scrutiny and assessment. At the last edition of the ...