Tag: Okwui Enwezor

  • Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

    Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs

  • Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America – book review

    Preceding an exhibition at New York’s New Museum, this book, based on a vision of the late Okwui Enwezor and realised by artists and curators who worked with him, is a timely response to racist violence

  • Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’

    Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…

  • All the World’s Futures: the 56th Venice Biennale

    Under the African curator Okwui Enwezor, the 56th Venice Biennale attempts to bring together our disorganised world, reflected in the diversity of works on display, and to embrace our pasts, presents and futures

  • A View of Africa, From the Inside Out

    Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography International Center of Photography, New York 6 March-28 May 2006 Africa is a vast region that now comprises more than 50 nations. Created through a long history of ethnic and cultural alchemy,…

  • Kassel Documenta

    Kassel Documenta is commonly compared to the Olympic games, but, being an inhabitant of former Eastern Empire, I remember great all-Union exhibitions held in the USSR, where regional unions of artists struggled fiercely for the right to ‘represent’. The rhetorical…