Gustavo Nazareno Has Nothing to Explain
Afro-Brazilian painter Gustavo Nazareno on Exu, Candomblé, and a practice that asks to be encountered rather than decoded — ahead of his 2026 Opera Gallery Paris show.
Inside the Most Compelling African Pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale
For a long time, Africa’s presence at the Venice Biennale has felt slightly out of place. Even as African artists helped shape contemporary art globally, the continent itself often seemed pushed to the margins, present but not always fully seen, its stories and forms framed through a Western lens or treated as something separate from […]
The Woman History Could Not Contain
More than a decade in the making, conceived by Ivor Ichikowitz and directed by the late Mandy Jacobson, a Netflix docuseries produced by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s granddaughters, Princess Swati Mandela-Dlamini and Princess Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway, returns her story to the family that knew her first.