Yinka Shonibare has been announced as one of the key contributors to the Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial in central London. His involvement marks a bold and also thoughtful addition to a landmark that aims to honour the late monarch’s legacy with depth and nuance. Rendering of Foster…
Sikelela Owen has clinched the 2025 Charles Wollaston Award at the Royal Academy for her oil painting Knitting. The £35,000 prize goes to the most distinguished work in the show, selected from more than 1,700 entries. Knitting by Sikelela Owen (Image credit: Royal Academy) Displayed in Gallery VIII, Knitting…
Wangechi Mutu is now the first living female artist to exhibit at The Galleria Borghese, Rome with her new show Black Soil Poems. The Galleria Borghese is a sumptuous proudly Roman 17th-century villa built for the Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese that today overflows with one of the world’s great…
IMIYENZI is a digital open call and upcoming group exhibition centering the voices of artists of East African heritage, both on the continent and across the diaspora. The project invites submissions of original digital artworks that explore themes of healing, resilience, and cultural memory. The exhibition is named…
Gallery 1957 London and Arthur Timothy present Othello’s Countrymen (The Krio Enigma). In this latest work, Ghanaian-born British-Sierra Leonean artist explores the complex intersections of race, identity and belonging through the lens of the Krio people of Sierra Leone and their historical parallels with the figure of Othello…
The Stade Museum recently concluded an exhibition titled AMANI kukita | kung’oa, rooted in a three-year research project into traditional Tanzanian cultures. This research drew from the extensive collection of German botanist Karl Braun (1870–1935), who gathered botanical and cultural artifacts during his time in Tanzania ( previously…
Buhlebezwe Siwani presents Remember Our United Beginning, a monument commemorating The Hague’s Translantic Slavery. The Hague, Netherlands hosts the International Court of Justice and is therefore known as the global capital of justice. With that said, this monument serves as a long-overdue act of remembrance. On the 30th…
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) is proud to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with the Art in Black Foundation to present The South African Collective — a debut curatorial art exhibition spotlighting five dynamic visual artists from South Africa. Curated by Allana Foster Finley of Cur8Afsrica, The South African Collective is…
Ben Enwonwu, widely regarded as the most influential African artist of the 20th century, takes center stage at Ewbank’s Auctioneers in Surrey this summer. On June 26, two of his rare and intimate works will lead the house’s Fine Art, Silver, Books and Stamps sale, part of Ewbank’s…
Dr. Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, lead archaeologist on the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) Archaeology Project, has won the 2025 Dan David Prize, widely regarded as the world’s largest history award. Dr. Abidemi Babatunde Babalola (Image credit: Archaeological Institute of America) A pioneering Nigerian archaeologist and research fellow…