Art Market
Not for Sale: How Black and Indigenous artists are rewriting the rules of the art market
Haiti
Denis Maksaens: Glitch and Representation in the Caribbean
Puerto Rico
I Am Monumental: The Power of African Roots

»What does it really mean to be in a community that holds and supports one another?«

Marta Moreno Vega
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Art Market
Not for Sale: How Black and Indigenous artists are rewriting the rules of the art market
The practices of Edgar Calel and Cameron Rowland can resist extractive logics and imagine alternative relations to value, community, and history.
Haiti
Denis Maksaens: Glitch and Representation in the Caribbean
The complex and layered digital art of the Haitian artist challenges exoticized views of the Caribbean shaped by tourism and Western fantasies.
Puerto Rico
I Am Monumental: The Power of African Roots
A conversation with the Corredor Afro team on the importance of Yoruba ancestry, community, and networks of solidarity.
Installation View
Flooded Memories
Amazonian artist UÝRA presents new body of works in a solo exhibition in Colombia.
Asia and Latin America
The Entanglement of Migration, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonialism
In his work, Esvin Alarcón Lam connects the history of bamboo in Central America with the colonial exploitation driven by the United Fruit Company.
Installation View
Roots: Beginning, Middle, and Beginning
Exhibition at the National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture brought together over 200 works by Black artists.
São Paulo Biennial
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces list of participants for its 36th edition
Titled "Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice," the Biennial opens its doors on September 6, 2025.
Jamaica
The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work reimagines Caribbean memory through intricate assemblages that fuse nature, myth, and ancestral knowledge.
Installation View
Electric Dub Station: The Return of Tomorrow
El Retorno del Mañana, part of the Electric Dub Station series, by visual artists Antonio José Guzmán and Iva Jankovic weaves a story of migration, resistance, and futurism through indigo textile pigment and sound.
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Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous Memory in the Work of Maria Lira Marques
An essay on the works of Brazilian artist Maria Lira Marques, ancestral memories, and the impact of globalization on traditional communities.
Studio Visit
Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez
Our Managing Editor Marny Garcia Mommertz, visited the studio of mixed-media artist Julianny Ariza Vólquez in Santo Domingo.
In Conversation with
Johan Samboni: Rewriting Urban Histories
A talk with the Afro-Indigenous Colombian artist on the parallels between real Life and the digital realm.
Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold
A Postcolonial Paradox
As a system of oppression, colonialism never ceased, but re-branded – as an exhibition in San Francisco shows.
In conversation with Anita Ekman
An Archeology of Afro-Indigenous Issues
Anita Ekman reclaims rock art and pre-Colombian history to decolonize the way we look at the present.
In Conversation with
Francisco Pinto and Venezuelan Afro-Indigenous History
A chat with the Afro-Venezuelan artist about his artistic practice, which incorporates elements of pop culture to talk about the Cimarrón (Maroon).
events
Exhibitions
OPEN BORDERS
TERN Gallery
Nassau, Bahamas
03 July 2025 - 29 August 2025
Exhibitions
akâmi-
Camden Art Centre
London, United Kingdom
03 July 2025 - 21 August 2025
Exhibitions
Tierras reimaginadas: migración
ASU Art Museum
Tempe, United States
23 August 2025 - 02 August 2026
Exhibitions
O vento continua, todavia
Paço Imperial
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14 June 2025 - 10 August 2025
Exhibitions
Encruzilhadas da Arte Afro-Brasileira
Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Salvador, Brazil
29 March 2025 - 31 August 2025
Exhibitions
Eterno Vulnerável
Solar dos Abacaxis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
26 July 2025 - 01 November 2025
Exhibitions
Mulheres Atingidas por Barragens: bordando direitos
MASP
São Paulo, Brazil
11 April 2025 - 03 August 2025
Exhibitions
Bienal SACO1.2
Bienal SACO1.2
Antofagasta, Chile
17 July 2025 - 12 September 2025
Exhibitions
Torcer, amarrar e pender
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Lisboa, Portugal
27 June 2025 - 16 August 2025
Exhibitions
Ancestral Futures
Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 31 August 2025
Exhibitions
Echoes from a Near Future
La Mécanique générale
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 05 October 2025
Exhibitions
Magma in the Océan
The Rencontres d’Arles
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 15 October 2025
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Grada Kilomba: Opera to a Black Venus
The first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Grada Kilomba nterrogates concepts of violence and repetition.
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Anaïs Cheleux : Relier l’identité caribéenne par la photographie et la performance
Marny Garcia Mommertz rend visite à Anaïs Cheleux dans son studio en Guadeloupe pour discuter du sirop de canne à sucre et de la Dak’art.
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C& Launches Patreon Membership
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Five Things You Need to Know About the John Randle Center Before It Opens
C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.
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C& On Racism
Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
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Thoughts on Collective Archives
Four collectives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.
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Argentina
Kukily: Connecting Afro-descendant Communities through Art
A chat with the collective formed in Argentina about Afro-diasporic diversity, quilombos and what it means to be a black woman in the Americas.
Project Chama
Poetics of the Black Diaspora
Online platform brings together three Brazilian and one Sudanese artists to map poetics of the Diaspora in the Americas.
In Conversation With Igor Simões
A Look at Latin American Women’s Art
Igor Simões, one of the curators of the Mercosul Biennial, speaks in an interview about the exhibit postponed because of the current pandemic.
C& Center of Unfinished Business
Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti
German scholar Fatima El-Tayeb explains how Europeans appropriate Black historical personalities and deny Africans their history.
Poco Bonito
Challenging Conventional Notions of Cuban Art
Located on a tourist trail in Cuba, an art gallery is fighting against stereotypical representations. But things aren’t always easy.
In Conversation with Charlene Bicalho
“Even without a key, I enter through the front door and plot escape routes”
Brazilian artist dialogues with various languages: from documentary webseries to photography, installation, and performance.
Conversation About the Museo La Tertulia
Cali, Between Trauma And Hope
Museo La Tertulia in Cali is one of the most original art museums in Colombia. We spoke to its curator, Alejandro Martín.
In Conversation with Joiri Minaya
Considerations on the “Tropical Identity”
The multidisciplinary artist from Santo Domingo appropriates colonial codes in order to invert relations of power.
Minga Decolonial Practices, Colombia
Creation as a Collective Process
An interdisciplinary Colombian collective wants to express the sentiments of the indigenous communities in order to recover ethnic and cultural memories.
opportunities
Call for applications
2025 Liu Shiming Artist Grants
, Worldwide
Call for proposals
Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão, Casa da Cultura de Canaã dos Carajás
CCVM Apoia 2025
São Luís e Canaã dos Carajás, Brazil
Grants
Fundación Ama Amoedo
Fundación Ama Amoedo Grants 2025
José Ignacio, Uruguay
Call for proposals
Anita Schwartz Galeria de Arte
6ª edição do Projeto GAS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Biophillick: Connecting Ancestries Through Technology
An interview with the indigenous Mexican multimedia artist based in Brazil.
News
Atlantic Threads
This residency programme brings together Brazilian, Beninese, and Ivorian artists addressing themes such as memory, Afro-Atlantic movements, and Afro-diasporic thought.
In Conversation With
The ancestral travels of Gladys Kalichini and Maritea Dæhlin
The artists’ work individually underscores the human need to reconcile with the intangible aspects of existence.
In Conversation with
Ana Pi: Knowledge does not disappear
Brazilian artist Ana Pi transforms individual and collective grief into acts of resistance and joy.
Brazil
Celebration and Resistance in Ventura Profana’s Films
An essay by abigail Campos Leal on Ventura Profana’s films as celebrations that challenge hegemonic spaces.
Brasil
MUNCAB inaugura novo espaço dedicado à arte afro-brasileira
"Odoyá" apresenta obras de artistas contemporâneos e mestres artesãos, com curadoria inspirada em movimentos como Afrofuturismo e Negritude.
Installation View
It Comes from the Head: A Straw Heritage
Exhibition in Nassau celebrates contemporary interpretations of strawcraft by Bahamian artists.
Call for applications
C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop, New Orleans
This open call invites New Orleans-based Black writers to participate in a three-day C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop led by tutors Nohora Arrieta Fernández, and Sherae Rimpsey.
La Trienal 2024
Imagining perversely with Madeline Jiménez Santil’s Art
An essay on the hybrid work of the Dominican artist challenging the constructs imposed by the white, colonial, and heteronormative gaze.
Brazil
HOA Gallery is redesigned as a non-profit initiative
The project supports young artists and includes exhibitions, residencies, and awards.
On four groundbreaking African festivals
A Call to History
Cédric Vincent writes about the importance of remembering pan-African events.
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