Decolonization

The strongest components of the unusually dispersed exhibition "take art from the altar and into the vernacular"

The new co-artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro discusses her Afro-centred curatorial practice, the importance of translation, and writing as a form of dance

Pablo Larios speaks with the Stedelijk Museum’s newly appointed curator-at-large about institutional accountability

The world demanded by Black Lives Matter is not the world in which Edward Colston belongs

Curator Brook Andrew’s proposal that creativity is an important means of truth-telling is a bolt of much-needed optimism

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

In further news: V&A Dundee’s architect to design new museum in Turkey, and students protest tuition fee hike at CalArts

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

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

From Clémentine Deliss to Megan Tamati-Quennell, four curators discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decoloniality

How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective

From Raqs Media Collective to Kapwani Kiwanga, five respondents discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decoloniality

At Manchester Art Gallery, an exhibition brings attention to how the selected ‘highlights’ of a collection tell a deeper story of erasure 

How monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture

The radical filmmaker, teacher and writer talks essentialism in identity politics and why her films are neither documentary nor fiction

The power of visibility: on postcolonial seeing and being seen

From Julieta González to Simon Njami, five artists, curators and writers discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decolonizing culture

Artists, curators and writers discuss the projects that have informed their thinking around decolonizing culture

Inaugurating the field of postcolonial studies, the Palestinian exile’s masterwork has been embraced and misread ever since