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Banff Centre's "On Other Archives" Residency Reconsiders the Archive as Site of Memory and Re-Storying - ART AFRICA Magazine
1+ week, 1+ day ago (238+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Open Call: Operating within Banff Centre's broader Visual Arts residency framework, On Other Archives is a thematic programme that foregrounds the archive as a critical and creative tool. Rather than treating archives as fixed repositories, the…...
We refuse_d: rehearsing refusal as method, memory, and possibility. - ART AFRICA Magazine
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (442+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Suzette Bell- Roberts: "we refuse_d" borrows its title from Hannah Arendt"s essay We Refugees, while also echoing the nineteenth-century Salon des Refus's. How did these historical references inform your curatorial thinking, and what forms of refusal…...
In Dim Light, New Histories Emerge - ART AFRICA Magazine
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (146+ words) Afro-Puerto Rican photographers reclaim image, identity, and archive at Museo Afro Casa Silvana. 9 April 2026 Deyaneira Lucero Maldonado, "Guaraguao, 2023 / 13 " x ", Digital Photograph on Luster Fine Art Paper In Humacao, Puerto Rico, a quiet yet urgent reframing of photographic practice unfolds with…...
OPEN CALL " CIMAM Travel GRANTApply for a CIMAM Travel Grant: International Open Call OPEN CALL " CIMAM Travel GRANT - ART AFRICA Magazine
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (268+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) has opened applications for its 2026 Travel Grant Programme, which supports participation in its 58th Annual Conference, under the theme Museums Beyond Limits: Imagining Repair Across Cultures, Ecologies…...
A Protea Is Not a Flower: the Making and Unmaking of A Symbol - ART AFRICA Magazine
2+ week, 6+ day ago (225+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Khanyi Mawhayi in conversation on opacity, intergenerational memory, and the unstable ground of belonging. Brendon Bell-Roberts: The title "A Protea Is Not a Flower" proposes a refusal embedded within a symbol so often mobilised to stand…...
Artist Proof Studio at 35: At Strauss and Co, Johannesburg. - ART AFRICA Magazine
2+ week, 6+ day ago (145+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Printmaking, pedagogy and the politics of access in South Africa's living legacy. This anniversary marks the beginning of a multi-year programme extending to 2028, including travelling exhibitions across all nine provinces and new publications. Presented in partnership…...
Open Call: Contributing to a Digital Queer Archive Across Africa and the Diaspora - ART AFRICA Magazine
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (112+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Bringing together objects, images, texts, and testimonies, the archive connects contemporary LGBTQI+ lives with longer genealogies of African gender diversity. It also resists the imposition of Western frameworks of queerness, prioritising critical, situated, and decolonial approaches…...