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Ongoing great exhibition by Anne Laure Guerra & Elroy Salam A critical Interpretation and Processing DEPTH OF FEEL By Anne-Laure Gueret and Elroy Salam The artist duo delves into a profound exploration of shared sensitivities related to personal and social aspects of identity. They navigate through their differing backgrounds of gender, race, culture, and identity, embarking on a journey that aims to either unravel answers or simply contemplate their common vulnerabilities of insecurities, doubts, and fears. The statement by both artists claiming to experience “Imposter syndrome” initiates a dialogue on experimenting with ideas surrounding their individual self-acceptance, confronting themes of…
We are delighted to invite you to our inaugural community engagement program: “Vanishing Past: A Community Archiving Program,” dedicated to celebrating the 95th birthday of Ghanaian-British Photographer, James Barnor. The workshop intends to recognize Barnor’s contributions to Ghana’s cultural legacy while also providing a space for sharing and recording personal and family histories. The workshop’s major goal is to unlock the limitless stories that exist in Ghana’s varied family histories, just like Barnor did with his photography and Ever Young Studios. Date and Time: Friday, June 7th & Saturday, June 8th 11am – 6pm Sunday, June 9th 1pm – 6pm…
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting, Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, fetched $12.6 million at Phillips’ modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong this week. The sale price, which includes premiums, just exceeded the low estimate of $12 million, making it the highest-selling piece of the season in Hong Kong. This record-setting sale follows the auction of another Basquiat masterpiece, Untitled (ELMAR), also from 1982. This work sold for $46.5 million at Phillips’ modern and contemporary art evening sale in New York earlier this month, marking it as the most expensive lot of the New York sales.…
James Barnor on the Road curated by @abyy.gaye and @margaux.lavernhe opening today @sccatamale @redclay_studio Exhibition opens today June 2nd at SCCA TAMALE at. 5pm. We are thankful to @clementinedelaferonniere @james_barnor_archives @james_barnor_festival @lisalovattsmith and Particularly James Barnor for making this exhibition come to a reality. Exhibition is on till mid 2025. Watch out for talks, workshops and seminars around the legacy of the artist’s lifetime work and also other collaborations events.
In a shocking turn of events, celebrated Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused renowned Nigerian-American artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault. The allegations were made in a detailed Instagram post by Awuah-Darko on May 19, 2024, recounting incidents that allegedly took place on June 9, 2021, during a dinner organized by the Ghana Creative Art Council at the Noldor Artist Residency, an institution founded by Awuah-Darko in 2020. In his post, Awuah-Darko, also known by his artist name Okuntakinte, described the events of that evening, alleging that Wiley assaulted him twice. The first incident occurred while Awuah-Darko was escorting Wiley…
A series of events celebrating the life and work of the pioneering Ghanaian-British photographer James Barnor will take place across Ghana this summer. The programme, titled James Barnor 95 Festival and expected to launch at the end of May, has been arranged to coincide with the artist’s 95th birthday. It was conceived by the gallerist Clémentine de la Féronnière following a conversation with Barnor during which he expressed his “wish” to spend the special occasion in his homeland. James Barnor, Self-portrait with a store assistant at the West African Drug Company, central Accra (around 1952) © James Barnor / Courtesy…
Nuku Studio presents “James Barnor : A Retrospective” “James Barnor : A Retrospective”, a photo exhibition celebrating his beautiful and thoughtful work. Yes, we are proud and honored. We celebrate James Barnor!!! Nuku Studio is excited to partner with the James Barnor festival, a series of exhibition and events in Accra and Tamale to celebrate the 95th birthday of James Barnor, starting Wednesday May 29 and running till June 29, 2024. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer born in 1929. He is known for his fashion, studio and street photography and the first photographer in Ghana to use coloured film.…
The Barbican announces the first large-scale public commission to be presented in the UK by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama (b.1987), opening in April 2024. Transforming the Barbican’s famous Lakeside Terrace, which sits at the heart of the brutalist complex, the site-specific artwork will dramatically envelop the building’s iconic concrete exterior with approximately 2000 square metres of bespoke woven cloth. Purple Hibiscus, named after Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s eponymous 2003 novel, is an ambitious new commission created in collaboration with hundreds of craftspeople from Tamale in Ghana. The work has been woven and then sewn by hand to produce colossal panels of…
The Dutch Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands, has agreed to cut ties with Israeli’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design following a months-long campaign by the school’s student union. The administration at the school, known as KABK for short, announced the decision to student campaigners in a letter dated May 10 that was first reported by Artnet News. “It is the consensus of our community that our policies and actions, together with those of our partners, must actively support and uphold universal humanitarian rights at all times,” the KABK’s board of directors wrote in the letter. The academy, founded…