TURF is a site-specific curatorial project from New York City. It challenges the arbitrary notion of Africana in the digital age. The constant flow of people, goods and artistic practice across porous borders has broadened human identity. TURF challenges some of the myths about our sense of belonging. Using a range of emerging artistic ideas and media, TURF encourages a more candid visual dialogue on the ebbs and flows of Africana today.
Artsy Editorial: http://bit.ly/1MG8DM1
Mouna Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, installation view from EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, 2016. Photo by Miriam O’Connor. Courtesy of the artist and EVA.
If you're in the city tonight please go to the opening of Endale Desalegn's first solo show in New York at David Krut Projects. A wonderful Ethiopian painter.
If you're in the city tonight please go to the opening of Endale Desalegn's first solo show in New York at David Krut Projects. A wonderful Ethiopian painter.
AFRICA'SOUT's second amazing dinner and benefit auction is on June 3 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Please get your tickets here: bit.ly/1Ms0Hha.
2016 AFRICA'SOUT! CELEBRATION Friday, June 3 Pioneer Works | Brooklyn, NY 6:00pm Doors Open Cocktail reception with performance by Moon Medicin! Silent Auction including works by Deana Lawson, Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Lyle Ashton Harris and many many more! 8:00pm Dinner by Ghetto Gastro Perf…
SPRING/BREAK Art Show. March 1 (Vernissage) 5-9 PM. Stairwell. Second floor. Tickets: https://www.artful.ly/springbreakartshow
Please come and experience Theo Eshetu's Amazing video installation 'Anima Mundi', curated by Mebrak Tareke, as 'Mimesis and Alterity' during SPRING/BREAK Art Show from MARCH 1-7. Image and artworks courtesy of the Artist and Axis Gallery in New York. ⌘COPY⌘PASTE!
Artsy Editorial: Focus on Africa at the Armory Show: http://bit.ly/1R3cz9E
The Armory Show will highlight eight special projects as part of its invitational “Focus: African Perspectives” section this year, according to information provided to Artsy.
IT'S OFFICIAL! TURF co-founder Mebrak Tareke is proud to be taking part in SPRING BREAK ART SHOW's ⌘COPY⌘PASTE edition. It runs from March 1-7, 2016. We hope to see you all there: http://bit.ly/1NG9jdu
In the Air - Everyones a curator! Especially so at the Spring/Break Art Show, New Yorks curator-driven art fair, which will return to the city in March for ...
Omar Victor Diop is Documenting a New Generation of African Creatives: http://bit.ly/1JSv5jF
The Senegalese photographer talks to i-D about reclaiming black history, Malick Sidibé, and his love for textiles.
A Coming of Age Tale Set Amid Miami's Delicate Ecology: http://bit.ly/1NEmdsD
There is a wordy, massive disclaimer at the beginning of director Terence Nance’s recent short film, “Swimming in Your Skin Again.”
EVA. Still the Barbarians. Artist Selection for 2016: http://bit.ly/1TeJ6tL
SAVE THE DATES: #springbreakartshow. ⌘COPY⌘PASTE. (1-7 MARCH 2016) in NYC. Mebrak TAREKE is THRILLED to be curating a pivotal video and multimedia installation by artist Theo Eshetu, courtesy of Axis gallery. Click here to get your VIP tickets: http://www.springbreakartshow.com/vip-registration/.
The radical Black artist bringing Nigerian cinema to the UK: http://bit.ly/1OnlzU2
We meet filmmaker Zina Saro-Wiwa to discuss femininity, sensuality and her exhibition ‘From Nollywood to the Niger Delta’
Artsy: Serigne Mbaye Camara: Drawing Deceit and Desire. https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire.
Past show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
The Art Collective Re-imagining the Past and Future for WOC: http://bit.ly/1OU1qX7
Hailing from San Francisco, these women of colour artists are fighting back against the Western, male, white-dominated narrative the historical and art worlds wrongfully present
African American Artists in Racially Divided Detroit: http://hyperallergic.com/266127/a-show-of-african-american-artists-resonates-in-racially-divided-detroit/?wt=2
DETROIT — Can an exhibition be informed by the place it visits?
e flux: in defense of political pessimism: http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/in-defense-of-political-pessimism/3052
[image] At the blog of Salvage magazine, editor-in-chief Rosie Warren argues for the intellectual and political uses of pessimism in the face of climate disaster, economic decay, and a rightwing upsurge. An excerpt: Two iterations of pessimism are commonly conflated. One is a pessimistic lens throug…
Artsy Editorial: On the Road with David Bowie. A Rock Star's Transformation. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-on-the-road-with-david-bowie-mick-rock
At the age of 24, British photographer Mick Rock scored a gig that would largely define his career: the role of David Bowie’s official photographer from 1972 to 1973. Not only was Bowie taking off in popularity at the time, he was embarking on one of the most momentous transformations in music histo…
Artsy: Serigne Mbaye Camara: Drawing Deceit and Desire. https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire.
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
e-flux: Imperialist art at the Tate Britain: http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/imperialist-art-at-the-tate-britain/3048
[image] At the NY Review Daily, Jenny Uglow writes about Tate Britain's current exhibit "Artist and Empire,” a survey of five hundred years of art about European imperial conquest. The exhibition makes a mild attempt at imperial self-criticism, showing works that exemplify the racist hubris of empir…
e-flux: El Anatsui's first major exhibition in Australia: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/el-anatsuis-first-major-exhibition-in-australia/
El Anatsui, Adinkra Sasa (detail), 2003. Fabric, aluminium and copper wire, 488 x 549 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © El Anatsui.
Another Africa: Tracing Emerging Contemporary Art Practice in Ghana: http://bit.ly/1RdbDAr
All the World’s Futures, curator Okwui Enwezor’s conspicuous project for the2015 Venice Biennale, certainly served up content-rich, social and political commentary. In one way or another it painted or rather – in true Enwezor fashion – documented a myriad of complexities facing our rapidly globalisi…
The Guardian: Mask observation: how artists are reinventing African masquerade: http://bit.ly/1O7rF8A
An exhibition touring the US brings together contemporary artists using the ancient form of masquerade to explore issues from politics to self-realisation
Artnet: Photographic Memory. Artur Walther's Collection of African Photography: http://bit.ly/1PcfjvO
Artsy Editorial: A New York group show surfaces human rights issues through portraiture: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-new-york-group-show-surfaces-human-rights-issues-through-portraiture
“Dare You to Look: Radical Realizations in Portraiture,” the first show at Burning in Water’s new gallery space in Chelsea offers the works of an eclectic group of artists operating in a broad range of styles. Through photography, collage, painting, and mixed media, these artists pose pointed questi…
2015 peak sonic moments unfold at Poland's Unsound fest and L.A.s 9800: http://lat.ms/1khxCXX
The year had a beginning. And in that moment, there was only one album I could listen to — D'Angelo's "Black Messiah," the soundtrack for my last winter in New York. Moving to L.A., though, erased much of what came before. When I think of 2015, the start date is a data glitch, re…
Artsy: Serigne Mbaye Camara: Drawing Deceit and Desire. https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire.
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
Artsy. Serigne Mbaye Camara. Drawing Deceit and Desire: https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire.
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
Contemporary And: Artist and Empire: http://www.contemporaryand.com/exhibition/artist-and-empire-facing-britains-imperial-past/
Performa 15. Derrick Adams. Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal/SLIDESHOW: http://15.performa-arts.org/events/pablo-fanques-circus-royal-sideshow
Inspired by Pablo Fanque (1796-1871), Britain’s first black circus owner, artist Derrick Adams acts as ringmaster for a portable circus of sideshow performances at the Performa Hub for Performa 15.
Artsy: Serigne Mbaye Camara. Drawing Deceit and Desire. https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire.
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
e Flux: So-called Utopias: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/so-called-utopias/
Chimurenga. Residency. Library. Performa 15: http://15.performa-arts.org/events/library
For Performa 15, South African collective Chimurenga presents a multi-tiered programming platform in the Performa 15 Hub, hosting a library-of-people through a broad spectrum of collaborators to create improvised bodies of knowledge.
TURF on Artsy: Drawing Deceit and Desire by Serigne Mbaye Camara.
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
African Biennale of Photography Returns to Mali Amid Unrest: http://nyti.ms/1H9hPFo
This event, which was canceled in 2013, has welcomed scores of photographers to display their work until the end of the year.
Endale Desalegn is probably the most exciting young Ethiopian painter today. If you're in Jo'Burg, please go and see his solo show at David Krut Projects between November 5 and December 19.
TURF's current show on Artsy: Drawing Deceit and Desire, with stunning pastel drawings by Serigne Mbaye Camara, from Senegal: https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire. A.L.M
Current show featuring works by Serigne Mbaye Camara at TURF New York City, 130 St James Place #1 Oct. 15th, 2015 – Jan. 15th, 2016
Enjoy TURF's latest show during Frieze and 1:54 in London: Drawing Deceit and Desire. Pastel drawings by sculptor Serigne Mbaye Camara: https://www.artsy.net/show/turf-drawing-deceit-and-desire
TURF is a site-specific curatorial project from New York City. It challenges the arbitrary notion of Africana in the digital age.
Artsy Editorial: Elias Sime Recycles First World's E-Waste: http://bit.ly/1R70BbP
These days, tech companies make upgrading to the latest cell phone or laptop so seamless—often with just the swipe of a button—that it’s easy to disregard the complex production procedures behind these advancements. But while wires, batteries, and circuit boards are usually tucked neatly inside glas…
The Armory Show Sets on Redefining the Hype around African Art: http://bit.ly/1VCbBPR
On Thursday, The Armory Show announced that the next iteration of its acclaimed section dedicated to spotlighting the artistic landscape in regions with flourishing art scenes, would set its sights on the African continent. Titled “Focus: African Perspectives,” the invitational section will be curat…
Koyo Kuouh and Contemporary African Art: http://nyti.ms/1ONnYcR
Over the last two decades, Koyo Kouoh has become one of Africa’s pre-eminent curators and art managers
Artsy Editorial: Awol Erizku's Powerful Photos of Black Sex Workers Disrupt Art History: http://bit.ly/1G5OfL6
In 2013, artist Awol Erizku traveled to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to explore the nation of his parents’ birth. There, with the help of new acquaintances—namely, translators and pimps—he embarked on a photographic series of nude sex workers posing on the loudly printed bedsheets of hotels…
Camille Henrot Celebrates Nicki Minaj: http://bit.ly/1JyfKOV
Plus, British Museum Partners with Spanish Bank, USC MFA Program Starts with One Student, and more.
Cedric Nunn at David Krut Projects in New York: http://bit.ly/1JyfKOV
David Krut Projects, New York: 526 W. 26th Street, SUITE 816, New York, NY 10001
Artsy Editorial: Can art change the future for racial and ethnic identity? http://bit.ly/1OjlUYO
Close up of Glenn Ligon's Rückenfigur, 2009. Neon and paint © Glenn Ligon. From "America is Hard to See" at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015)
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