Colonialism

The artist’s first large-scale hanging works accompany embroidered tableaux that reimagine scenes of 18th- and 19th-century opulence

Victoria Adukwei Bulley speaks with the artist about psychoanalysis, storytelling and how new languages can unpack historical trauma

Beneath the slick surface appearance of the National Gallery of Victoria’s blockbuster exhibition is a timid exploration of Australia’s colonial legacy

At the Mosaic Rooms in London, Heba Y. Amin traces colonial footprints in the Arab world through communication technologies 

The photographer retraces the history of the German capital's 'African Quarter'

An exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig explores the life of the first African philosopher in Germany and an overlooked chapter in the country’s history

Tender yet brutal, Deacon's work melds violence and merriment at the NGV, Melbourne

The artist and curator discuss why nobody notices James II in Trafalgar Square and how abolition can be represented in a public space

In the context of increasingly sadistic attacks on Muslim people, the Glasgow-based artist provides a space for grief and dreaming

The artist’s nine-day performance in the museum’s galleries ties the migration of peoples and objects to the systems that control and classify them 

Her lyrical, haunting novel Celestial Bodies exposes the global forces that preclude literary value from flowing in both directions

Artists Barby Asante, Libita Clayton and Ashley Holmes are reimagining what it means to go back home

‘Perhaps the shroud I am looking for is embracing lost souls and helping them to return’

‘A Time for New Dreams’ at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery transcends fashion, offering insights into Wales Bonner’s influences across art and literature

As her solo show opens at the New Museum, New York, the artist discusses the legacies of colonialism and art world privilege

100 years on from World War I, the filmmaker’s latest work Mimesis: African Soldier remembers the faces we seldom see in history books

Hall’s understanding of cultural identity allows us to deconstruct and reconstruct who we think we are

Debates around restitution are breaking with increasing force against the doors of Europe’s treasure chambers; a new report may prove decisive

Formerly the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the museum was originally conceived as a showcase for King Leopold II’s personal property: the Congo Free State

Things to chew over: In the Absence of Our Mothers makes histories of displacement uncomfortably felt