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Published on 02/09/2025
Ibraaz | London’s New Arts Hub For The Global Majority And Uncensored Dialogue
Published on 27/08/2025
Naomi Beckwith Announces Curatorial Team For Documenta 16
Published on 19/08/2025
Not All Travellers Walk Roads | 100+ Artists Join 36th Bienal De São Paulo In September
Published on 13/08/2025
Angela Harutyunyan And Paula Nascimento Appointed Curators Of Sharjah Biennial 17
Published on 13/08/2025
Photographer Nona Faustine, Known For Her Powerful Images Of Black Womanhood And Overlooked American Histories, Dies At 48
Published on 25/03/2025
GET TOGETHER | 10 Years Of GRIOTmag
Published on 10/02/2025
Rencontres De Bamako | Maheder Haileselassie Tadesse Awarded Grand Prize Seydou Keita
Published on 05/01/2025
Naomi Beckwith Takes Over As Artistic Director Of Documenta 16 In Kassel
Published on 18/12/2024
Conceptual And Performance Artist, And Critic Lorraine O’Grady Dies Aged 90
Published on 14/12/2024
Koyo Kouoh Appointed Curator Of 2026 Venice Biennale
Published on 04/12/2024
Lo Schermo Dell’Arte Festival Dedicates Retrospective To Garrett Bradley
Published on 14/11/2024
Dakar Biennale Off – Partcours 13 | Binta Diaw, Adji Dieye, And Délio Jasse On View With Souvenir D’Italie
Published on 13/11/2024
Mati Diop’s Dahomey In Theater In Rome In Collaboration With The Museum Of Civilizations
Published on 13/11/2024
LOST | Soundtracks To Decolonial Practices
Published on 23/07/2024
REVERBERATIONS | SPAZIO GRIOT At The Mattatoio From June To July
Published on 13/06/2024
Artist Residency | SPAZIO GRIOT: Second Congress Of Black Writers And Artists
Published on 07/06/2024
Dakar Biennale 2024 Postponed To End Of Year
Published on 05/05/2024
Venice Biennale | Archie Moore And The Mataaho Collective Awarded With The Golden Lion
Published on 26/04/2024
African Pavilions And Diasporic Perspectives At Venice Art Biennale 2024
Published on 16/04/2024
“If One Can, Anyone Can, All You Gotta Do Is Try” | Faith Ringgold, Pioneering And Visionary Artist And Author Dies At 93
Published on 14/04/2024
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Appointed Chief Curator Of The 2025 São Paulo Biennial
Published on 07/04/2024
Maryse Condé | Guadeloupean ‘Grand Storyteller’ Passes Away Aged 90
Published on 04/04/2024
Danielle McKinney | Fly On The Wall
Published on 22/03/2024
Preserving African Heritage In The Digital Age
Published on 22/03/2024
The Wake | Dak’Art Biennale 2024
Published on 18/03/2024
Biennale Danza 2024 | Trajal Harrell Awarded The Silver Lion
Published on 14/03/2024
Berlinale 2024 | Mati Diop’s Dahomey On Looted African Art Wins Golden Bear For Best Film
Published on 04/03/2024
GET TOGETHER | 9 Years Of GRIOTmag
Published on 05/02/2024
Venice Biennale 2024 | Theme And Artist List
Published on 03/02/2024
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Published on 11/12/2023
Il Moro – The Moor | How Director Daphne Di Cinto Used Her Oscar-Contending Short Film To Retell Italian History
Published on 05/12/2023
Johanne Affricot Appointed Curator-At-Large At The American Academy In Rome
Published on 07/11/2023
Minted In Enemy Bronze | Justin Randolph Thompson On View In Rome
Published on 07/11/2023
Afro Futuristic Dreams | Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids Drop New Album
Published on 28/09/2023
Senam Okudzeto Receives The Paul Boesch Art Prize 2023
Published on 09/09/2023
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Dove Hanno Tremato Le Placche | Notes On Ilenia Caleo And Valerie Tameu’s Conversation
Published on 28/07/2023
An Ode To The Ballroom | Notes On Lasseindra Ninja’s Lecture
Published on 17/07/2023
Lesley Lokko’s 18th Architecture Biennale In Venice Higlights Decolonisation And Decarbonisation
Published on 15/05/2023
Adji Dieye’s Aphasia Examines The Loss Of Language In Senegal
Published on 11/05/2023
African Languages Shine In Olongo Africa’s New Anthology
Published on 28/04/2023
Senzeni Marasela Is The First Recipient Of The K21 Global Art Award
Published on 24/04/2023
The Return Of The Malombo Jazz Makers
Published on 22/04/2023
The MET Celebrates Afrohispanic Painter Juan De Pareja With A
Published on 18/04/2023
June Jordan, The Poetry Of Design
Published on 17/04/2023
Mapping Black Europe | A New Anthology Maps Black Presence In 8 European Capitals
Published on 17/04/2023
Bocar Niang Presents The Dîner Griot.t.e.s And A Site Specific Performance At Villa Medici
Published on 08/04/2023
Cherlise’s Black Archives | A Photographic Memoir Of The Black Folk
Published on 07/04/2023
I Am Everything | New Documentary Honors The Life And Legacy Of Rock ‘N’ Roll Legend Little Richard
Published on 05/04/2023
Outside The Field Of African Art
Published on 03/04/2023
Safeguarding Cultural Legacy | The Case Of The Nina Simone House
Published on 31/03/2023
Love Has Never Been A Popular Movement | TYGAPAW Announced New Album
Published on 29/03/2023
Intertwined | Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastical Forms On View
Published on 27/03/2023
Demas Nwoko Awarded The Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement Of The 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
Published on 25/03/2023
Pharrell Williams Appointed Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director
Published on 15/02/2023
Julien Creuzet To Represent France At The 60th Biennale Di Venezia In 2024
Published on 01/02/2023
John Akomfrah RA To Represent Great Britain At La Biennale Di Venezia In 2024
Published on 30/01/2023
Mutidisciplinary Artist Kapwani Kiwanga To Represent Canada At La Biennale Di Venezia 2024
Published on 27/01/2023
Nakhane Announced New Album Bastard Jargon And Released New EP
Published on 28/12/2022
2022 Appointments In The Art World
Published on 27/12/2022
Maxi Jazz | Faithless Lead Singer Dies Aged 65
Published on 25/12/2022
REFRAMING TRADITION(S) | Chef Binta At Museo Delle Civiltà
Published on 23/11/2022
From River To River | The European Pavilion In Rome
Published on 15/11/2022
Yinka Shonibare Launches G.A.S. Foundation
Published on 06/11/2022
Pasolini’s Cinematic Poetry Between The Past And The Present
Published on 06/10/2022
Stella Jean Returns To The Milan Fashion Week With Wami
Published on 30/09/2022
Come As You Are A Creative Writing Workshop With Inua Ellams
Published on 28/09/2022
We Are Angry, We Are Sad, We Are Tired, We Are United | Lumbung Community Respond To Documenta 15’s Scientific Advisory Panel
Published on 11/09/2022
Documenta 15 Releases Press Release By New Scientific Advisory Panel
Published on 11/09/2022
Venice Film Festival | Alice Diop Won The Grand Jury Prize And The First Film Prize For Saint-Omer
Published on 11/09/2022
Venice Film Festival | Daphne Di Cinto Won The Cultured Focus Visionary In Film Award
Published on 11/09/2022
The Nothing #8 | Autumn Knight And Silvia Calderoni In Conversation
Published on 10/08/2022
SPAZIO GRIOT | OPEN CALL – Come As You Are. A Workshop With Inua Ellams
Published on 06/06/2022
Dak’Art Biennale | Tuan Andrew Nguyen Memorializes The Vietnamese-Senegalese Community
Published on 04/06/2022
Exercises For The Imagination Of A Space
Published on 23/05/2022
Na Chainkua Reindorf’s Secret Society
Published on 03/05/2022
Sonia Boyce And Simone Leigh Won Golden Lions At The 59th Venice Art Biennale
Published on 24/04/2022
GRIOT Guide To The Venice Biennale | African Pavilions
Published on 15/04/2022
GRIOT Guide To The Venice Biennale | Asian And Australian Pavilions
Published on 11/04/2022
GRIOT Guide To The Venice Biennale: American Pavilions
Published on 07/04/2022
GRIOT Guide To The Venice Biennale | European Pavilions
Published on 21/03/2022
Diébédo Francis Kéré Awarded 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Published on 19/03/2022
A Tale Of Two Women
Published on 15/03/2022
São Paulo Biennale Names A Curatorial Collective
Published on 14/03/2022
59the Venice Biennale 2022 | Open Letter: “Not Our Namibian Pavilion”
Published on 09/03/2022
Our History Is Here
Published on 06/03/2022
In BAMANAN, Rokia Koné’s Voice Soars With Power, Grace And Optimism
Published on 26/01/2022
Silvia Rosi Among The Finalists Of The MAXXI BVLGARI Prize
Published on 12/01/2022
August-December 2021 Appointments
Published on 30/12/2021
Open Letter: Grada Kilomba And The Venice Biennale 2022
Published on 19/12/2021
Committee Snubs Grada Kilomba For Portuguese Pavilion At The 2022 Venice Biennale
Published on 18/12/2021
Acclaimed Author, Poet, Feminist Bell Hooks Dies At 69
Published on 15/12/2021
Ehua’s Aquamarine Music Video Is Here
Published on 10/12/2021
Str8, No Chaser | KULUKHUNI KUYITSHE! By Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko
Published on 09/12/2021
Inside The Art Book Of The Hour
Published on 07/12/2021
Grada Kilomba | On The Launch Of Memorie Della Piantagione In Italy And Her Upcoming Exhibition
Published on 03/12/2021
Boo | Stories To Defy The Gender Binary
Published on 02/12/2021
Virgil Abloh, Off-White Founder And Artistic Director For Louis Vuitton Dies Of Cancer At 41
Published on 29/11/2021
Freezing Time In A Charged Present At Photo Vogue Festival 2021
Published on 13/11/2021
Mrley Is Here To Rethink The Indie Rock Paradigm With His Debut EP ‘Love You London’
Published on 12/11/2021
VISIONI | RAIY – In Conversation With Dagmawi Yimer
Published on 01/11/2021
Plantation Memories | Spazio Griot, Capovolte And Castello Di Rivoli Present Grada Kilomba
Published on 26/10/2021
African Cinema Into The Future
Published on 22/10/2021
Six Italian-Ethiopian Artists And Creatives Open Up In The New Series VISIONI – RAIY
Published on 19/10/2021
Art Blakey’s Ambivalent Relationship With Africa
Published on 16/10/2021
Monsters Anna Bassy’s Debut EP Is Here
Published on 15/10/2021
The Skepticism Of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels
Published on 09/10/2021
We Famous | In Conversation With Chief Boima Of Kondi Band
Published on 24/09/2021
Watery Thoughts | Josèfa Ntjam Brings Her Dazzling Aquatic Imaginaries To Rome
Published on 07/09/2021
Earthquake In Haiti | How To Support The Haitian People
Published on 16/08/2021
Jacob Desvarieux: Zouk Pioneer And Diaspora Music Theorist
Published on 04/08/2021
Taking Stock After The Strongest Decade Of “African Photography”
Published on 29/07/2021
Tokyo Olympics 2020 | Volleyball Player Paola Egonu Will Carry The Olympic Flag For Italy
Published on 20/07/2021
Elvira Dyangani Ose Appointed Director Of The Museum For Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA)
Published on 20/07/2021
Alto Paraiso | Lafawndah’s Directorial Debut Explores The Language Of The Plants
Published on 19/07/2021
June Appointments In The Art World | Kabelo Malatsie, Julia Grosse, Legacy Russell
Published on 26/06/2021
The African Futures Institute | A New School Of Architecture Set To Open In Accra
Published on 24/06/2021
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Appointed Director Of Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt
Published on 21/06/2021
Joviale’s New EP Hurricane Belle Will Blow You Away
Published on 14/06/2021
Reframing History | Photo Vogue Festival Looks For Alternative And Different Tales
Published on 04/06/2021
Fatima Al Qadiri’s Medieval Femme Explores Arab Women’s Classical Poems
Published on 13/05/2021
Bamako Encounters | The African Biennale Of Photography Announces Theme And Team
Published on 23/04/2021
The Orchestras Of Transformation | New Artistic Imaginaries For The 2030 Agenda
Published on 19/04/2021
James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective
Published on 30/03/2021
Valerie June Is Back With The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers’
Published on 12/03/2021
Welcome To Our Re-New-ed GRIOT Home
Published on 24/02/2021
Aliens To Equals | Eli Gold Brings Social Harmony To Fashion
Published on 20/02/2021
Biennale Di Venezia | Germaine Acogny Awarded The Golden Lion Of Dance 2021
Published on 18/02/2021
Kanawa | Nahawa Doumbia’s Outcry For The Sons And Daughters Of Africa
Published on 12/02/2021
Why African Vinyl, LPs And Master Tapes Must Return
Published on 10/02/2021
Anna Leone Sings The Fear And The Power Of Loneliness In Once
Published on 05/02/2021
Justice Is Poetry In The New Joel Culpepper’s Visual By Julianknxx
Published on 03/02/2021
Indaba Is | A Joyful Jazz And Improv Riot That Sounds Of Hope
Published on 29/01/2021
Sept Voix Italo-sénégalaises Se Racontent Dans La Série Vidéo VISIONS – GUISS GUISS [FR-EN]
Published on 27/01/2021
Series Of Appointments Signal New Era In Art, Fashion, Media
Published on 22/01/2021
Peace Of Mind | Arya: “I Would Never Give My Music Up In The Name Of Success”
Published on 21/01/2021
Why Omar Sy Is Enthralling Audiences With Lupin
Published on 19/01/2021
Watch These | 3 Pieces Of Advice To Ease Your Big-screen Nostalgia
Published on 18/01/2021
Towards More Social Contact | GRIOT’s New Projects And Collaborations
Published on 30/12/2020
Ibrahim Mahama E Melaku Belay (Fendika Cultural Center) Receive 2020 Prince Claus Awards
Published on 06/12/2020
End Sars | Infamous Nigerian SARS Police Unit Has Been Disbanded
Published on 16/10/2020
GRIOT Takes Over GUCCI Equilibrium
Published on 17/07/2020
A Surge Of Power (Jen Reid) | La Statua Di Edward Colston Sostituita Con La Statua Di Una Manifestante
Published on 16/07/2020
Buckle Up: Bozoma Saint John Is The New Face Of Netflix
Published on 03/07/2020
Legendary Drummer And Afrobeat Co-founder Tony Allen Passed Away
Published on 01/05/2020
Coronavirus | What Is The Challenge Ahead? We Don’t Know, But We Are Ready
Published on 21/03/2020
Biennials And Triennials To Visit In 2020
Published on 26/02/2020
Italian Beauty | The Vogue Italia Cover With Maty Fall Is Not Just A Cover
Published on 10/02/2020
‘B_U : Session 1’ | Dopo Dieci Anni Ecco Il Debutto Di Blaqkongo & Koek Sista
Published on 29/12/2019
‘Every Void’ | April + VISTA Get Dark In Their Brand New Visual
Published on 11/12/2019
Here Is What Our (Memorie) In Ascolto [Listening Memories] Looked Like
Published on 27/11/2019
Vagabon Leaps Into The Electronic Realm In Her Second Self-titled LP
Published on 11/11/2019
AKAA Also Known As Africa | Contemporary African Art Rocks Paris
Published on 07/11/2019
‘Wasa Bibi’ | Samito & Boogieman Team Up For New Kussom Inspired EP
Published on 18/10/2019
‘Zero’ | Antonio Distefano’s Netflix Series Unveils A Young Generation Of Black Italians
Published on 08/07/2019
‘Mirrors’ | Contemporary Dance, Video Art, Music Recount “Italia, Culture, Africa”
Published on 27/05/2019
Okwui Enwezor | A Pillar Of Global Contemporary Art Has Died
Published on 16/03/2019
‘Khonnar’ | Deena Abdelwahed’s Debut Album Is Almost Here
Published on 13/11/2018
‘Closer Apart’ | Okzharp & Manthe Ribane’s Debut Album Is Here
Published on 10/05/2018
‘Roll – Burbank Funk’ | The Internet’s Comeback Is A Funk Explosion
Published on 04/05/2018
Afropunk Lands In Senegal With The Takeover-Dakar
Published on 29/04/2018
Skepta Is Now A Chief In Ogun State, Nigeria
Published on 06/04/2018
Bacardi House Pioneer DJ Spoko Passed Away
Published on 21/03/2018
“The Hunt Has Begun” | Fascist Targets Blacks In Drive-by Shooting In Macerata (Italy)
Published on 06/02/2018
GRIOT Lands At Jazz:Re:Found With The Events ‘Sangue Misto’
Published on 21/11/2017
Bozoma Saint John | The New Face Of Uber
Published on 15/08/2017
Renaissance | Wu-Tang Clan’s 90s Clothing Line Is Back
Published on 14/07/2017
Hurricane Matthew And #PrayForHaiti | But “pray” For What? Send Help, Please
Published on 11/10/2016
Where Are You All Going? Don’t Leave Us Alone
Published on 05/06/2016
Why We Don’t Give A Damn If Prince Died Of A Drug Overdose?
Published on 22/04/2016
#ALLMYMOVIES Art Performance | Watch Shia LaBeouf Watching 72 Hours Of His Movies With His Fans
Published on 12/11/2015
It’s Official | Bed-Stuy Street Re-named ‘Do The Right Thing Way’
Published on 13/08/2015
New York Artist And Rapper Prince Harvey Secretly Recorded An Entire Album At An Apple Store
Published on 27/07/2015
Timbuktu Triumphs At French Cinema’s Césars | 7 Prizes
Published on 21/02/2015