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Raíces y renacimiento: Mujeres Dominicanas en el Arte
Exhibition in New York presents 22 contemporary Dominican artists that reinterpret tradition.
Photography
Art and Identity in the Caribbean
Kosisochukwu Nnebe and Keisha Scarville are two artists exploring identity and migration in their Miami residency.
Retrospective
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Charting Global Black Diasporic Geographies
"Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold", at the Brooklyn Museum, explores diasporic identity and the global histories of Black and Asian migration.
Installation View
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil
Exhibition of contemporary Brazilian artists in the United States engages with political and cultural aspects of Brazilian history.
Terra Foundation and C& collaborate on writing workshops
Terra Foundation for American Art funds C& Critical Writing Workshops and C& Mentoring Program in 2023
C& facilitates writing workshops for young art writers since 2016; in 2023 they will take place in Atlanta and Dallas, United States.
Cuba
Indiscipline and Counter-memory in Afro-Cuban Art
An exhibition about Afro-Cuban art at Harvard’s institution dedicated to the art of the African diaspora.
White Label
How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters
Art historian Gürsoy Doğtaş analyses the power imbalances between Warhol and his BIPoC queer and trans sitters of lower Manhattan.
Clotilde Jiménez
Queering Boxing, Undoing the “Macho”
The artist, born in Honolulu and based in Mexico, raises questions around race, class, sexuality and gender.
Black Lives Matter, Cervantes and the Spanish Heritage
“A Legacy that Privileges Whiteness and Excludes Blackness”
A talk about statues and Black Lives Matter, the discrepancy of the Spanish heritage and the author of "Don Quixote".
In Conversation with Tiffany Alfonseca
"The Representation Of Afro-Latino Culture Is Essential"
The Dominican-American artist talks about art, her roots and her new series In Quarantine.
In Conversation with Janice Mitchell
German Museums Need to Catch Up
Museum Ludwig in Cologne questions conventional collecting cultures, starting with a critical examination of its own reputable collection of artworks from the US.
No Justice No Peace
WE ARE.
We have invited creatives and thinkers from the US, other parts of the Global Diaspora, and Africa to share their thoughts about this historical moments.
Installation View #museumshutdown
The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art
A thematic group exhibition centered on the question, “what might a Caribbean future look like?”, in the Pérez Art Museum, Miami.
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Mexican Muralists in the United States, Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum in New York rediscovers Mexican muralists and their influence on 20th century American art.
DePaul Art Museum
Latinx Initiative
Multi-year effort includes research, exhibitions, and community-building
In Conversation with Florine Démosthène
Challenging the Self to Redefine the Canon
Magnus Rosengarten spoke to the artist about her work and in particular about how her own body functions as a role model.
#Seattle with Cura Club, Playthey and ScumTrust
Radical Collectivity
Three collectives focus on the ways Blackness can be explored outside of the perpetuation of trauma narratives.
A Latin American Universe
What Is Latinx?
We take a look into the implications and opportunities of the new expression, that has also been discovered by the art world.
In Conversation with Alejandro de la Fuente
Cuba: “The Problem Is Not Silence – It’s Deafness”
The curator of “Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present” on Cuban history and the island’s artistic scene.
Inventing Your Own Game
Maren Hassinger: “We Are Not Alive To Make Money”
Will Furtado speaks to Maren Hassinger about protesting against lack of inclusion, the conditions for Black artists today, and more.
In Conversation with Leticia Contreras
Reacting to Social Emergencies
Whe spoke with the Texan native artist about her work and her role as an artist, activist, and teacher.
Akosua Adoma Owusu: Welcome to the Jungle
Beauty and Power in Black Hair Culture
Interweaving different narratives, Akosua Adoma Owusu’s solo exhibition portrays the complexities of Black life.
Slavery Images
The Image As Testimony Of The Unspeakable
An archive of historical images allows us a look into the terrible world of slavery in the Americas.
Paulo Nazareth at the ICA Miami
Dismantling colonial power
The Brazilian artist offers a journey to understand the oppressive, exploitative nature of colonial history in his country.
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Exhibitions
Our Red Devils, Our Drifting Upheavals 
Mendes Wood
Brussels, Belgium
04 September 2025 - 25 November 2025
Exhibitions
Here Lives the Origin
Josh Lilley Gallery
London, United Kingdom
13 October 2025 - 20 November 2025
Exhibitions
Sala de Vídeo: Vídeo nas Aldeias
MASP
São Paulo, Brazil
13 June 2025 - 10 August 2025
Installation
XTRANCESTRAL: Building Afrofutures
BARAZANI
Berlin, Germany
04 July 2025 - 18 July 2025
Exhibitions
Teatro Experimental do Negro nas fotografias de José Medeiros
Instituto Tomie Ohtake
São Paulo, Brazil
13 June 2025 - 03 August 2025
Exhibitions
Luiz Paulino: O Inventário do Massacre do Carandiru – 2 de outubro de 1992
Solar dos Abacaxis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
30 May 2025 - 05 July 2025
Exhibitions
Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
18 September 2025 - 11 January 2026
Exhibitions
Sara Flores. Non Nete.
Museo de Arte Lima
Lima, Peru
28 March 2025 - 17 August 2025
Exhibitions
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
01 May 2023 - 31 March 2024
Exhibitions
Ocama Aracoel
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
14 March 2024 - 11 August 2024
Exhibitions
Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop
El Museo del Barrio
New York City, United States
24 April 2025 - 03 August 2025
Exhibitions
Edgar Calel: Ni Musmut (It's Breezing)
Bergen Kunsthall
Bergen, Norway
30 August 2024 - 05 January 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
An invitation to our extended community to join and support us!
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C& Opinion
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Conversation With
Jesús Hilário-Reyes: Dissolving Notions of Group and Individual
In their antidisciplinary practice. Artist Hilário-Reyes combines performance, installation, objects and expanded cinema.
Asia and Latin America
Duality as an Invitation to Multiplicity
Exhibition in Hong Kong brings together contemporary artists from Latin America, Europe, mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Acervo
Museu Afro Brasil recebe obras de Marcelo D´Salete
Seis pranchas originais de Marcelo d'Salete, ilustrador e colaborador da C&AL, passam a fazer parte do acervo do Museu Afro Brasil.
opportunities
Call for applications
Sesc Paraná
Prêmio Sesc de Arte 2025
Todo o país, Brazil
Call for proposals
MASP
MASP Pesquisa
Todo o país, Brazil
Call for papers
Revista serrote
8º Concurso de Ensaísmo serrote
Todo o país, Brazil
Residencies
Instituto Moreira Salles
Laboratório de Imagens
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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