Archive for the ‘News’ Category

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  Prof. karî’kachä seid’ou wins 2026 Prince Claus Impact Award

  September 10, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 266

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Professor karî’kachä seid’ou, Dean of the Faculty of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of...

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  Hair as identity, history, and resistance

  September 8, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 213

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) At Annobil Contemporary Gallery in Accra, German artist, anthropologist, and historian Dr....

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  Mining, memory, labor and migration through art

  August 28, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 302

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) For Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist Ebenezer Nketsiah Mensah, art is inseparable from lived...

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  Exaggeration, symbolism, and surreal interventions

  August 25, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 424

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) At first glance, Nkwaye’s So Real – Surreal seems to inhabit the familiar territory of...

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  Memory finds a home at Gallery 1957

  August 19, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 374

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Grief can reshape one’s relationship with place. Familiar streets become repositories of memory,...

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  Five emerging lights in a shared constellation

  August 15, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 354

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Stars have long held a powerful place in human imagination. They have served as guides for...

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  Landmark festschrift honors El Anatsui’s legacy

  August 4, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 575

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Few living artists have reshaped the language of contemporary sculpture as profoundly as...

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  Everyday objects, extraordinary meanings

  July 29, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 459

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) There is a quiet confidence running through Weight of the Ordinary, the latest group exhibition...

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  Stain as transformation: reimagining purity

  July 23, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 448

  By John Owoo (Kumasi – Ghana) An exhibition of artworks titled I call upon these persons here present to witness that…, by...

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  Artist unmasks hidden architects of galamsey

  July 20, 2026 • FeaturedArticle, News • 6439

  By John Owoo (Accra – Ghana) Ghanaian artist Ebenezer Christian confronts one of the country’s most pressing...