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Baby Esther | The Harlem singer who made Betty Boop famous
Cinematic icon and first animated sex symbol in history, Betty Boop is one of the dearest cartoon characters to pre-millennials and baby boomers. How to forget Betty in Who Frame..
Review | ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’
On spotting a lone copy of Afropean on the shelves of one of those good bookstores we are told we should support, I was surprised that the publisher had signed off on what I thou..
The limitations of white empathy | Face to face with Anton Kannemeyer
Satire is the use of humour, irony or exaggeration to expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical iss..
“Black Models. From Géricault to Matisse” is the exhibition we needed
A couple of months ago, I came across the image of a painting as I scrolled through my timeline on Facebook. It’s a painting I must have seen at least ten times in the past few y..
‘Mirrors’ | Contemporary Dance, Video Art, Music recount “Italia, Culture, Africa”
Last October, on the occasion of the ‘Italy-Africa’ Conference in Rome and the private visit of 250 guests to the African Metropolis exhibition at MAXXI museum, we presented a te..
‘Surfing Iran’ | Giulia Frigieri explores the hijabi surfers’ revolution
A revolution is something extraordinary and unexpected: it’s a game changer, it reverses the order of things, and despite what they teach us in school, soft revolutions—those whi..
Studio visit | A day with Alexis Peskine
Friday, November 10, Peskine’s atelier in Issy-les-Moulineaux’s petite ceinture parisienne. While I make myself at home, I don’t realize I’ve just put my orange juice on a piece ..
FORTIA by Keyezua: A Contemporary Masked Ritual
Keyezua sees herself as a storyteller that is currently reinventing herself to tell the day-to-day stories of women around the world that make her uncomfortable to remain silent…
Galerie Number 8 celebrates its first anniversary at AKAA – Also Known As Africa
It’s only a few days until the opening of Akaa – Also Knonw As Africa – the first and only art fair in France devoted to contemporary art and design from Africa. There’s great ex..
Abe Odedina | The sacred art of humanity
“An articulate contemporary dialogue between epochs, cultures and individuals.” This is how the contemporary african art fair 1:54 introduces the work of Nigerian-born, London an..