Long Read | Chéri Samba, king of Kinshasa
The Congolese painter’s work is part of the Kings of Kin exhibition at Galerie Magnin-A in Paris. In this interview, Chéri Samba talks of his beginnings and how art and politics are always connected.
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The expansive art world of Banele Khoza
Offering virtual gallery tours during Covid-19, the artist and gallerist continues to break walls and widen access, turning the white cube into a colourful prism.
Counting not by numbers but through music
Philip Miller’s music and William Kentridge’s art humanise people dehumanised in the archive of colonial bureaucracy, and fight the Nazi practice of reducing people to numbers and ciphers.