How A Defunct Pan-African Airline Inspired This Magazine

Air Afrique magazine is a dynamic new platform celebrating Afro-diasporic art and fostering discussions around Black expression. Conceived by a Paris-based collective and drawing inspiration from influential pan-African magazines of the past century, the publication made its debut at the Centre Pompidou in Paris during Men’s Fashion Week with the support of Italian fashion house…

Iraq Brings The Mosul Cultural Museum Back To Life

Ambitious restoration plans for Iraq’s Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) and its invaluable collection have been announced this month. The initiative highlights the site’s significance within architectural and world history and places the museum at the centre of the region’s cultural and community regeneration. The second largest museum in Iraq, following Baghdad’s National Museum, the institution…

Preview: A First Look At The 35th Bienal De São Paulo

Including participating artists Dayanita Singh, Aline Motta, Gabriel Gentil Tukano, Manuel Chavajay, Philip Rizk, Mounira Al-Solh, and Leilah Weinraub, among others, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo reveals the first list of artists involved in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo. Entitled choreographies of the impossible, and running from 6 September to 10 December 2023, the Bienal will bring together diverse artistic practices from locations outside the…

Filmmaker Wu Tsang Reimagines The Tale Of ‘Moby-Dick’ With Sophia Al-Maria, Telfar Clemens & More

Currently a resident at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Wu Tsang is an American filmmaker and performance artist whose works seamlessly bring together documentary and narrative techniques infiltrated with surprising tangents into fantasy, unpacking shrouded histories, marginalised narratives, and, at times, the act of performing itself. Tsang reimagines racialised, gendered representations beyond the visible frame to encompass…

Where New York’s Artists Are Going Skating This December

99 Scott, the cultural events venue in Brooklyn, has launched StudioSkate, a 2500 square foot ice skating rink fusing community, music, food and the arts. The project is an imaginatively designed alternative to traditional holiday skating rinks, replete with conceptual lighting installations and a pizzeria, already attracting the city’s art and fashion crowds. New York…

Strange Clay: Ceramics In Contemporary Art

Open now and running until 8 January 2023, London’s Hayward Gallery presents Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, an ambitious group exhibition exploring how contemporary artists have used the medium of clay in inventive and unexpected ways. Given the recent surge of interest in ceramics by artists around the world, as well as countless people…

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