Gaddafi Archives at the London Photography Festival
The ‘Gaddafi Archives – Libya Before the Arab Spring’, which opened this week at the London
53 Article(s) by:
Orlando Reade
Orlando Reade is a Ph.D. student in English at Princeton University.
A Room Adrift in London
This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.
Steve Bloom photographs 1970s Cape Town
The London Festival of Photography has opened, and one of its most appealing features is an
Pieter Hugo on ‘political correctness’
Pieter Hugo, the critically acclaimed South African photographer, has done an interview with Guernica (H/T Glenna Gordon) in which
Egypt after Edward Said
Last December, when the Institut d’Egypte was burned down, I thought immediately of Edward Said. Napoleon’s expedition
Where is contemporary African art? Not at Bonhams
Bonhams must have employed some jokers to publicise their latest attempt to cash in on the
Afropolitan Divas
Numbi, a gathering space for the Somali diaspora artists in the UK, expands its focus to include poetry and music from elsewhere in East Africa and elsewhere at a showcase in East London.
Achille Mbembe at the Tate Modern
The moderator received a text which said that the political philosopher was trying to find an internet café, then another saying Mbembe was trying to find an internet café with Skype, then another saying that he was trying to find an internet café with Skype in a part of the city where there wasn’t a power-cut.
Coca-Cola can’t copyright colour: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp
"Coca-Cola Bird" stands facing the corner of the gallery, half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition, oily red paint spun across the bucket cocked over her head, the same brash color on the feathered tutu winding around her waist. Her chest sprouts sparkling empty bottles bearing the famous label, and familiar labile curves.
Africa as Science Fiction
Science fiction as genre offers the opportunity to African artists to consider Western cartographies of the future as fictions in their own right.
David Cameron’s Libya Doctrine
Britain’s secret service, MI5, passed on sensitive information to their Libyan colleagues to torture dissidents.
An unusual sensitivity
One of the striking facts of Nabil Ayouch’s film is that Israelis love the land and the Palestinians love it too.
The civilizing mission of the white man
The recent controversy around Günter Grass’s criticisms of Germany’s arms trade with Israel is an interesting post-script to the Namibian genocide controversy.
Germany’s Namibian Legacy
Jim Naughtom’s images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.
Nothing To Lose? The Art of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
The artist recognized early on that his sexuality constituted an obstacle between himself and his Nigerian background.
Golden Theater or Gutted Whore-house
The debates about the misrepresentation of Africa in the international art community as well as privileging diaspora artists over those working in the continent, rages on.
The Branson Biennale for Morocco
Vanessa Branson stands, hands on hips, her loosely hanging skirt tails give her the figure of
Tank Girl
Nadine Hammam's work turned out to be “too risky” for Art Dubai. Her new exhibition, Tank
Thrones no one wants to sit on
Gonçalo Mabunda's chilling constructions are now on display at the Jack Bell gallery in London. His
There is nothing left in Alexandria
In Egypt, the revolutions of the present may, in the future, become the failed revolutions of the past.