The 2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with a full digital edition available to stream across the UK. Featuring 10 powerful and uplifting new documentaries – each accompanied by a live, online discussion with filmmakers, film participants, and Human Rights Watch researchers from around the world – the festival is presented…
SOUTH SOUTH is a recently launched online community, sales platform, archive and resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South. “The platform offers a repository and a space for new, shared value systems centred on community, collaboration and exchange,” its founders explain. It endeavours to be a central portal to experience…
In late 2019, just a few months before the pandemic and national lockdowns commenced, curator Eva Langret was appointed as the new Artistic Director of Frieze London, leading the strategic development and artistic programme of the art fair. With Langret at the helm, the 2020 edition of the fair brought together a diverse roster of…
Leading non-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire has announced that its permanent home in Clapham, south London, will reopen to the public in October 2021, following the completion of a transformative renovation project designed by architects Matheson Whiteley, whose past work includes Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany, as well as artists’ studios for…
Co-produced by the Barbican and independent publisher and curator Sarah Shin, literary festival New Suns returns from 5-7 March 2021, taking place entirely online for the first time this year. With a weekend of talks, workshops and a film centred around feminist storytelling, the programme will feature acclaimed writers, activists, artists, and academics offering diverse…
Established by five friends, Yousef and Elias Anastas, Yazan Khalili, Saeed Abu-Jaber and Mothanna Hussein, based across Ramallah, Bethlehem and Amman, Radio Alhara was born in March 2020 with the intention of connecting people across the Middle East and North Africa in reaction to the pandemic’s impact on global creative communities. Co-founder Abu-Jaber tells Something…
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the world’s leading institution devoted to visual art by artists of African descent. Golden began her career as a Studio Museum intern in 1987. The following year, she joined the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she launched her influential curatorial practice….
Open to explore online from tomorrow, 29 January 2021, Hauser & Wirth present Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines’ first solo exhibition in the UK, featuring a host of new works presented across the gallery’s London spaces. Born in 1944 in Charleston, South Carolina, Gaines began his career as a painter, earning his MFA from the…