From 21–30 April 2021, ALFILM – Arab Film Festival Berlin returns for its twelfth edition. While the German capital’s cinemas remain closed due to the pandemic, the festival will take place via Indiekino Club, a new streaming platform offering audiences the festival experience from the comfort of home. ALFILM brings together a diverse selection of…
On a balmy summer’s day in 1936 a woman dressed in a bridal gown paraded around Trafalgar Square, London, her face entirely covered with red roses, in tribute to Salvador Dalí’s painting, Woman with the Head of Roses, 1935. The mystery woman, who puzzled passers-by and made newspaper headlines, was later revealed to be artist Sheila Legge,…
Art Dubai 2021 brings together 50 galleries from 31 countries across the world, showcasing a diverse selection of artworks with a strong focus on artists and practices from the Middle East and the Global South. The 2021 edition is one of the first major physical art fairs to take place since the pandemic. The fair’s…
Established in 2018 by collaborators Stacy Skolnik, A.M. Bang and Thomas Laprade, Montez Press Radio (MPR) grew out of the success of New York publishing house Montez Press, born six years earlier. Championing conceptual and often unexpected dialogue and, more broadly, sounds, MPR’s compelling programming is unfettered and interdisciplinary. Platforming a roster of both emerging…
This summer, Barbican Art Gallery presents Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, an exhibition dedicated to the work and activism of Brazilian artist Claudia Andujar. For over five decades starting in the 1970s, she devoted her life to photographing and defending the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous communities. Andujar explains, “I started working with the…
Presented by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac and running until 17 April 2021, You don’t do it for the man, men never notice. You do it for yourself, you’re the fucking coldest is Alvaro Barrington’s first solo exhibition in France. Shown across all four floors of Ropac’s Paris Marais gallery, Barrington’s new paintings reflect the cross-pollination of…
Curated by Azu Nwagbogu, Director of the African Artists’ Foundation, Amsterdam’s Galerie Ron Mandos presents (Re)Pose, an exhibition exploring the figurative paintings of South African artist WonderBuhle and Nigerian artist Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, running from 6 March–3 April 2021. Both painters unpack familial histories through portraiture, protesting forms of oppression and the misrepresentation of Black bodies…
Open to the public from 4-7 March 2021, FIAC, which has taken place every year since 1974 in October in Paris, launches the inaugural edition of FIAC Online Viewing Rooms. This new online platform hosts some 200 galleries, both emerging and established, in the fields of contemporary art, modern art and design. Conceived to be…