24 October 2026

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CriticismDiaspora

Pap Souleye Fall turns digital waste into speculative worlds at MIT

Writing in ArtReview, Gee Wesley examines Pap Souleye Fall’s exhibition at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. The Senegalese-American artist combines discarded screens, sculptural scaffolding and illustrated wooden books with the fictional struggle between DEAD PIXEL and THE DATA COLLECTOR. Wesley connects the installation’s recurring peanuts and cowrie shells to West African histories, reading its playful construction as a challenge to digital consumption. The exhibition runs through 29 November 2026.

ArtReview·23 Oct 2026

CriticismDiaspora

ArtReview considers diaspora perspectives in British Art Show 10

In ArtReview, Mark Rappolt assesses Ekow Eshun’s British Art Show 10 across Coventry’s galleries. His review discusses how Liz Johnson Artur’s photographs of African-diaspora communities and Ufuoma Essi’s archival video approach collective life through movement, alongside Nnena Kalu’s drawings. Rappolt finds the exhibition’s experiments with identity more compelling when art engages lived experience rather than remaining contained by gallery conventions. The Coventry presentation continues until 10 January 2027.

ArtReview·23 Oct 2026

CriticismDiaspora

Toronto Biennial review explores memory and historical rupture

In Hyperallergic, Neil Price examines how the Toronto Biennial’s Things Fall Apart connects memory, movement and historical rupture. He highlights Dawoud Bey’s landscapes, Antonio Obá’s participatory installation and Raphaël Barontini’s tribute to Harriet Tubman. While finding individual works compelling, Price questions the exhibition’s cohesion and its assumption of a previously unified world. Allison Glenn curated the biennial, which continues through 20 December 2026.

Hyperallergic·23 Oct 2026

NewsPan-African

C& editor maps the platform’s evolving arts ecosystem

Contemporary And editor-in-chief Ethel-Ruth Tawe traces the platform’s development across publishing, education, archives and artist commissions. Writing for C&, she uses the Kongo cosmogram to connect its magazines, Nairobi hub, mobile reading room and other programmes. Her essay introduces a series examining how these interrelated projects support artistic exchange and keep knowledge from Africa and its diasporas in circulation.

Contemporary And (C&)·22 Oct 2026

InterviewDiaspora

Anina Major connects Bahamian weaving and ceramic sculpture

In an ART AFRICA interview, Anina Major discusses translating Bahamian palm-plaiting traditions into ceramic sculpture for The Sacred Mangrove at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Drawing on skills inherited from her grandmother, the installation connects family memory, migration and Caribbean ecology. Major describes bottle trees as references to African-diaspora spiritual practices and questions the separation of craft from fine art. The interview considers how inherited techniques change across generations and places.

ART AFRICA·20 Oct 2026

NewsNorth Africa

African artists feature in Rubaiya Qatar’s inaugural programme

ArtReview reports that Rubaiya Qatar’s first edition in Doha will bring together more than 120 artists through three exhibitions and public installations. African participants listed include Meriem Bennani, Mohamed Bourouissa, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Wael Shawky and Lydia Ourahmane. The programme also names Basim Magdy and Joseph Ntensibe, while Ibrahim Mahama is among the artists commissioned for public works. The main exhibition, Unruly Waters, is scheduled to open on 21 November.

ArtReview·14 Oct 2026

NewsDiaspora

Common Ground book traces Mohammad Omer Khalil’s printmaking career

Hyperallergic’s October 20 newsletter highlights the launch of Mohammad Omer Khalil: Common Ground at New York’s Center for Art, Research and Alliances on October 25. The organisers describe the book, edited by Amina Ahmed and Jenna Hamed, as a collection of essays, studio material and archival records tracing the Sudanese artist’s career between Sudan, Italy and New York. The event will combine readings with conversation involving Khalil and contributors.

Hyperallergic·20 Oct 2026

Institutional AnnouncementDiaspora

Awilda Sterling-Duprey joins Puerto Rican abstraction survey

Afro-Caribbean artist Awilda Sterling-Duprey is among the participants in Diasporican Abstraction: Identities Beyond Representation at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. The museum’s sponsored announcement describes a survey of more than sixty artists exploring migration, memory and abstraction across Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Sterling-Duprey’s inclusion connects the show to an artistic practice that the Joan Mitchell Foundation describes as combining abstract painting and Caribbean religious dance traditions.

Hyperallergic·19 Oct 2026

NewsDiaspora

Jazmine Hayes brings affirmations of care to Brownsville public art

Jazmine Hayes’s I Am Protected places four designs at the entrances of Brooklyn’s Brownsville Multi-Service Center through New York City’s Percent for Art programme. In Hyperallergic, Rhea Nayyar reports that Hayes intended the commission to offer children a sense of protection and community. ArtBridge describes her wider practice as exploring African-diaspora histories, inherited cultural traditions and Black women’s rituals of care.

Hyperallergic·15 Oct 2026