The official Canadian view of South Africa
The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness
Art
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.
Marrakech Biennale looks North
Kicking off this week is the 4th Marrakech Biennale. The opening days will see performances, debates,
The Ungovernables
It seems rather arbitrary to pick out the African artists from ‘The Ungovernables’, the New Museum’s
The Noise of Cairo
Last month the Daily Beast decided that Cairo had lost its voice. It reminded me of
Sindiso Nyoni’s Riot Art
Short recent video profile by VOA’s Nico Colombant of the Zimbabwean artist, illustrator and designer R!OT
The Jews of Morocco
An interview with documentary photograpter, Aaron Elkaim, who explores the remains of Morocco's Jewish communities.
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
January in Cairo IV: the two faces of Egyptian art
Om Kalthoum, the late great Egyptian singer, stands in the studio of Khaled Hafez. Her eyes are
How to feminise a tank
The Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam’s work maps out the social and psychological position of the female body through the dialectic of the naked and the nude.
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Get Up, Stand Up
Tunisian born artist Amel Bennys, who works between Tunis and Paris, has just had her first
January in Cairo III
We can deduce certain trends about Egyptian painting and the nature of its buyers.
The Ministry of Culture
In the wake of January 2011, art is not yet able to understand the exemplary demography of the Egyptian people.
Remembering Tunisia
A series of public portraits by the young French-Algerian artist Bilel Kaltoun honors the martyrs of Tunisia's revolution.
Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
GAL draws Africa
71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work