UPCOMING AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOWING IN NEW YORK
New African Photography can be seen in Brooklyn, New York, May 7 – 15, 2016 Something that five years ago was unthinkable is happening in New York . Contemporary African photography is getting increasing exposure in New York , not just the classics but also the newest of the new. Nataal, a new global media […]
Malick Sidibe. A documentary
https://youtu.be/Zx6e7Sv7GCk
Ellsworth Kelly sees abstract forms in every day life: His photographs
Exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly photographs at Matthew Marks. Read the review of the exhibition in the New York Times for more information.
“The World is 9” : Aida Muluneh’s new photographic series at David Krut Projects
Conceptual photography from Ethiopia : Aida Muluneh’s new body of photographs “The World is 9” shown at David Krut Projects in New York City is bold, enigmatic, highly personal and imaginative, and infused with theatricality. Sai Mado/ The Distant Gaze, 2016 By choosing this title Muluneh is referencing a saying she heard from her […]
Nicholas Hlobo solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York
Umkhokeli “I recycle good pieces out of the past and create something that is new” Nicholas Hlobo (video by Al Todd). I am thrilled to see that Nicholas Hlobo is finally having his first gallery solo exhibtion in New York City at Lehman Maupin. I can report that his health scare a couple years ago […]
Toyin Ojih Odutola at Jack Shainman gallery
Total commitment to the art of mark-making. Toyin Ojih Odutola just had her fourth solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery. Odutola’s medium of choice is drawing. She is quite aware of the inherent challenge to restricting her practice to drawing, which has always been considered in Western art as secondary to painting. Yet she embraces […]
Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum
. Creativity, fecundity and the magical: Zina celebrates the women from the Niger Delta. Barely back from Lagos I turn around and fly to Houston not too thrilled about being on a plane again but very much looking forward to attending Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum where she is having her […]
Artist Zina Saro-Wiwa first solo show at the Blaffer Museum in Houston
A transformative force in the Niger Delta: Through the art of performance Zina Saro-Wiwa highlights the importance of the people’s emotional and spiritual relationship to the environment. Loaded and painful history has a funny way of leading us on roads far away from our beginnings to avoid reckoning with our past and delay our coming […]
Best Wishes For A Joyous and Peaceful New Year
KONGO: POWER AND MAJESTY but also beauty and emotion…. ANCESTRAL SHRINE FIGURE: SEATED FEMALE. KONGO PEOPLES; YOMBE GROUP, 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Read Holland Cotter’s review
Lagos Photo Festival: a local grass roots project
A new frontier photography: Lagos A couple of weeks ago I went to Lagos, Nigeria to attend the Lagos Photo Festival. I had been to Bamako several times, had found the quality pretty consistent but the event felt quite formal and isolated from mainstream Bamako. So this year I decided to go and check out […]
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