CFP: Visual Art Biennials on the African Continent (OBOE Journal, special issue)
In September 2005, the Ivorian critic and historian Yacouba Konaté was invited to curate the 7th iteration of the Dakar Biennial (2006), with the mission of creating an “authentic African art biennial”. But…
CONF: Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships – A Session of the UK Association for Art History Annual Conference (University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024)
In 1981, American artist and writer Mary Kelly defiantly underlined how exhibitions have become primary tools for disseminating the history of art. Since the 1990s, following the establishment of curatorial studies, the proliferation…