Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
The weekend after Hurricane Sandy hit NYC, AIAC’s Sean Jacobs and I (we’re academics in our day jobs) attended Encounters with the African Archive, a symposium at New York University. The symposium coincided with the exhibition series Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive at The Walther Collection Project Space, and was intended to create an
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Earlier this year, while I was in Cape Town, I interviewed Emma Bedford, a specialist in painting, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture at Strauss and Co., fine art auctioneers based in Cape Town. I asked her about...
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
A short video profile of the Johannesburg photographer, Sabelo Mlangeni, one of 17 South African photographers in “Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography“, showing from 12 April through 17 July this year at the...
Igor Stravinsky’s South Africa
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Republic of Women
26 Jan 2010 at 2:31 pm
Sunrise
23 Sep 2011 at 6:00 am
Shameless Self-Promotion: Chief Boi...
25 Apr 2012 at 9:50 am
Utopia Unstuck: A review of Africa ...
13 Jul 2012 at 6:01 am
The New Yorker covers violence aga...
30 May 2012 at 3:00 am
The Farafina Creative Writing Works...
11 Sep 2012 at 3:30 am
Mali’s coup — ‘Politics is bad’
27 Mar 2012 at 12:00 am
Africa and the Biennial: Regard Ben...
3 Dec 2012 at 11:00 am
