Photographer Samuel Fosso lived for many years in Bangui with his family. With the rebels overrunning his town, he managed to escape just time, finally settling in Paris. This interesting video tells his story…
Stan Douglas / Luanda- Kinshasa at David Zwirner
For Stan Douglas‘s twelfth solo exhibition at David Zwirner, the artist debuts a new film set in a reconstruction of the Columbia 30th Street Studio. This legendary recording studio, known as one of the finest in the world, was opened in 1949 by Columbia Records in an abandoned Armenian church on East 30th Street between Second and Third […]
Medical training in Kenya hospitals is showing promising results!
Pilot medical training programs sponsored by MEAK are a success in Nanyuki hospital. Back in 2011 MEAK Orthopedic team identified the need to improve the ability of medical practitioners to recognize the signs of deterioration in acutely ill patients in hospitals. A new initiative/ course was put together called GRASPIT ( Global Recognition of Acutely […]
The Lalela Project and Robin Rhode in Cape Town
The communal power of wall drawing: Robin Rhode engages the local children in a site-specific intervention I live in a city, New York, where art is too often discussed as a commodity. It saddens me because I have had the most moving experiences and insights into the human mind and spirit in front of paintings. […]
Rainbow Serpent: Romald Hazoume and the African Cosmos
Art and Survival On a Sunday afternoon I went to the Newark Museum to attend a talk by Romald Hazoumé on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, which explores the interactions of African cultural astronomy and the arts, traditional and contemporary. Hazoume’s Rainbow Serpent /Dan Ayido-Huedo is a large […]
“African Spirits” by artist Samuel Fosso
Collecting African contemporary photography. Three years ago I decided to put together a small collection of African contemporary photography. I am a collector at heart, I love the process of looking , getting to learn about the artists and the world they live in, understanding the particular issues being addressed in their art, following the […]
Awesome Tapes from Africa at Lisa Cooley
Sunday, May 20th, the Lisa Cooley gallery saw an unusual sight- cassette tapes. Brooklyn’s Brian Shimkovitz, author of popular blog Awesome Tapes from Africa, brought his collection of rare African tapes from across the continent to the intimate Lower East Side venue. In between mounted pieces by Michael Bauer, Shimkovitz took us on an audio journey across Zimbabwe, […]
Poaching in Africa: the scale of the problem
Following Prince William’s passionate anti-poaching speech, we look at the disturbing facts behind the poaching spree. A horn can change hands at £40,000 per kilogram (2.2lb), compared with £33,000 for a kilogram of gold Photo: ALAMY By Charles Starmer-Smith and Brian Jackman In the years before the Tusk Trust was established in 1990, poaching was […]
News: Update on the medical front in Kenya.
Children awaiting heart surgery. Tanuja Walli, founder of the Paediatric Support Group in Mombassa, was sharing her frustration with me : Nine children from the Coast area of Kenya died in the last couple of months while they were awaiting a slot to get heart surgery in Nairobi. Why does that happen? First there […]
“Now Is As Authentic As Then” Says Holland Cotter
NY Times Art Critic, Holland Cotter continues his report on Art in Africa, In Mali, Art as Real as Life Itself. He captures eloquently how Africa challenges Western ideals of authenticity: “Taste is habit, a form of learned behavior. And habit is what we rely on to make us feel at home and comfortable in […]
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