Nothing has Changed in Egypt
Tahrir Square has become the most troublesome of metaphors in a country beset by problems of representation.
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Orlando Reade
Orlando Reade is a Ph.D. student in English at Princeton University.
Modern life in Lagos
Nigeria is surely too large and its art community too diverse for any claims for representativeness to be sincerely possible?
10 photographers to watch in 2012
As part of a series of year-end posts--we're taking a break from Friday, December 23, till January 5, 2012, we're hoping to post 10 "Lists of 10" this week. (We're trying to be cool by calling it "10x10"). So two lists per day. Orlando Reade, who blogs for us from London, starts us of with his list of 10 photographers to watch in 2012. He's picked five African artists and five Europeans who have been working in Africa.
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,
Les Fantômes
A painting sits glowering on the wall of the Jack Bell Gallery in London. Figures daubed