In her discerning 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag declared: “Photography has become almost as widely practiced an…
Tag: Abidjan
5 Questions for a Filmmaker–Philippe Lacôte
Philippe Lacôte grew up in Abidjan, next to a movie theater named The Magic. After linguistic studies and a stint in rad…
The Tenor from Abidjan
The Tenor from Abidjan follows Landry Assokoly, a young man from Côte d’Ivoire, as he follows his dream to become …
When Jean-Michel Basquiat went to Africa
Jean-Michel Basquiat, the first American artist of African descent to achieve international stardom, often referenced Af…
How to Paint Ghosts: An Interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia
“Artists don’t create reality they make phantasms”, using a kind of “fantastical technique to pr…
Guggenheim’s map–Where is the rest of Africa?
The recent announcement of the Guggenheim Foundation’s new “Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative” bears all of the h…
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed in bright colours stare out fro…
Things will get better
Magic Systeme and Tiken Jah Fakoly tells their fellow Ivorians “Ca va aller.”…
Orientalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
James North: Orientalism takes a different form in sub-Saharan Africa. There, Orientalists do not emphasize the “…
'In the end, just a guy in a bad Hawaiian shirt without a clue'
That’s how Alexis Okeowo (on Twitter) sums up the end of the four-month stand-off against democracy by Cote d̵…