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‘The New Black Vanguard’ | Antwaun Sargent on the visual vocabulary redefining the fashion industry—and society

Many years ago, on a very hot afternoon, I was enjoying a stracciatella gelato at the ice cream parlour Fior di Latte in Pétion Ville (Haiti), when my brother looked at me and s..

Flee’s latest project revisits Tarantism as a global aesthetic

If all we had was the written word, the ephemeral mysticism of rituals would be completely lost on us. We would run out adjectives faster than the performers of a ritual — in the..

Music

Andy S | “I’m not a conscious artist, I‘m just being honest”

One of Ivory Coast’s finest rising rappers is 22 years of age, has a fresh new EP out and didn’t exactly dream of becoming a rapper growing up. In fact, her sights were set entir..

Imprisonment, identification and identity in Fiamma Montezemolo’s ‘Entanglements’

According to nineteenth-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 work Criminal Man—original title, L’Uomo Criminale—the tattooed XIX century man was ancestrally predisposed t..

Music

‘B_U : Session 1’ | This Pan-African duo’s debut has been a decade in the making

‘Good things take time’ is in many ways a (re)tired cliché, time being the one thing that nobody seems to have—or make—these days. This is why a new tape from Johannesburg-based ..

‘Human Archipelago’ | Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh explore notions of hospitality in latest photo book

The word ‘hospitality’ sounds a bit old-fashioned. In a globaliSed world where every (Easy) jetsetter with the right passport, outfit and vocabulary can be a ‘local’ anywhere, th..

Here is what our ‘(Memorie) In Ascolto [Listening Memories] looked like

On 23rd, 25th and 26th November our artistic project ‘(Memorie) In Ascolto‘, realised as part of the festival Futura Memoria e Contemporaneamente Roma 2019, dressed up the space ..

‘(Memorie) In Ascolto’ | Feed the memory, strengthen the memory, transmit the memory

Feed the memory, strengthen the memory, transmit the past, present and future memory. These are some of the watchwords of (Memorie) In Ascolto, the project realised as part of th..

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‘Living Grains’ | Ibrahim Mahama’s first solo exhibition in Rome

Ibrahim Mahama (b. 1987, Tamale, Ghana) presents its first solo exhibition, Living Grains, at the Fondazione Giuliani. The show includes a range of newly commissioned artworks, i..

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People

Blue, purple, red | Women, blackness, injustice and revoultion in Mary Sibande’s Uk solo show

Colour is the visual perception of electromagnetic radiation within the visible spectrum. Intangible palette of our reality, colours fill our existence, feed our imagination, str..