academic resource that offers journals and databases
Includes indexes of artists featured in historical publications such as Lantern, Our Art, and Artlook, including pdf's of many early pressclips. Maintained by the Haenggi Foundation.
Creative Knowledge Resources (CKR) is an interdisciplinary project funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the University of Cape Town which seeks to document and study socially engaged art and art interventionism.
The Decolonial Translation Group (GDT) is a network of activists-translators whose purpose is to promote the circulation of information about indigenous and decolonial struggles, irrespective of language barriers (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese)
Photos from the 1930s
Latitudes Online is a global platform for art from Africa.
Compiled by Janet L.Stanley, National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Massive portal with endless resources. (Spanish and English)
Haenggi Foundation website useful for information on the Johannesburg art scene, 1960-1990.
Massive resource, including full texts of several book and thesis publications
The Spunk Library collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. Last updated in 2000, but plenty good stuff happened before then!
Cultural portal and directory for the global south (English, French, Spanish & Portuguese)
For decolonial aesthetics and resources
Communicating about African cities
Sylvester Ogbechie's contemporary African arts blog.
Blog that is "not about famine, Bono or Obama"
African poetry, art and cinema (Portuguese)
Art reviews, interviews and critiques from Zambia.
Arts and culture, design and architecture, fashion, music, photography and more.
Curator Christine Eyene's blog
The blog for the Mozambican contemporary art association - update, por favor! (Portuguese)
Chika Okeke-Agulu's blog on "art, life and politics"
Australian based project promoting south-south exchange.
The Bag Factory is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation in Newtown, Johannesburg.
An artistic and cultural building protect of Barthelemy Toguo in Bandjoun, Cameroon. (French and English)
Centre for contemporary art, Lagos
Contemporary art and culture centre, Cairo
Centre in Cotonou, Benin
Keleketla! Library is a library and experimental creative space in Johannesburg, functioning with a Pan-African perspective.
Innovative project established in Rabat, Morocco, by curator Abdellah Karroum (french, english & arabic)
Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, New Chamba Valley, Lusaka, Zambia
Contemporary art space in Dar es Salaam
Centre for art, knowledge and society, Dakar. (French & English)
A New York based centre for contemporary engagement with the African continent.
A London based centre for educating, connecting, and advocating for Africa and its diaspora since 1964.
The Contemporary African Art Collection (C.A.A.C. – The Pigozzi Collection), based in Geneva, is the largest private collection in the world of contemporary African art.
Active from 1922 to 1967, the Harmon Foundation's art collection provides an intriguing snapshot of modern African art
More of an ongoing revisionist art historical project than a typical private collection, ReVisions is now online, expanding the narrative of South African art.
Launched in 2016, ART X Lagos is West Africa’s first international art fair
Official website of Africa's best known biennale (French & English)
Public art biennale, Douala. (French)
Online magazine for African culture (Portuguese)
African/ Mediterranean art and culture (Italian)
Arts, politics, economy, education and science. (Dutch and English)
Trans-disciplinary open access scholarly peer-reviewed construct...
Multi-disciplinary site (French, English, German & Italian)
Afro design and contemporary art (French)
African news and information.
Caribbean art and culture magazine dedicated to highlighting contemporary visual art and the dialogues that exists between emerging and established artists
Produces print and digital versions, now transforming from national to international (African) publication.
Current coverage of South African visual arts
Bubblegum Club is a cultural organisation based in Johannesburg with a multi-faceted approach of working across platforms and mediums.
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Contemporary And (C&) is a dynamic platform for reflecting and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary visual arts.
Journal of African art history and visual culture
Published by Delta Gallery in Harare from 1994 to 2002, all 31 issues are available online
Online journal for contemporary African arts
journal of contemporary African art
Pan-African voices for freedom and justice. (English, French and Portuguese)
Contemporary arts from Africa and the world.
Online journal for contemporary African art, based in Germany.
Online journal of the Kampala Arts Trust, focuses on East Africa
Official website of Third Text/Black Umbrella
African arts and culture (Spanish)
Zimbabwe's preeminent independent gallery
Gallery, Harare
Gallery, Maputo (Portuguese and English)
The museum was conceived with the goal of highlighting "Africa's contribution to the world's cultural and scientific patrimony."
The Smithsonian Institutions African art museum. More Garth Erasmus artworks here than at all South African public collections combined!
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Publishing project to issue critical texts on contemporary African arts, established by Sylvester Ogbechie.
African Books Collective, founded, owned and governed by African publishers, seeks to strengthen indigenous African publishing through collective action and to increase the visibility and accessibility of the wealth of African scholarship and culture.
Established in 1957, the African Studies Association is a membership organization devoted to enhancing the exchange of information about Africa.
International Association of Art Critics (French & English)
A dynamic artist collective from Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal province.
Buala Cultural Association’s Internet site, a multidisciplinary portal dedicated to critique, record and reflection on contemporary African cultures. (Portuguese, English and French)
Pan-African research organisation
inter-governmental autonomous organization for Latin America and the Caribbean dedicated to research, teaching and spreading of social sciences (Spanish)
Established in 1990, the Thami Mnyele Foundation runs since 1992 a unique three month artists-in-residence program in Amsterdam. The main objective of the Foundation is to advance cultural exchange between artists from Africa and the diaspora.
Has links to all the Triangle workshops across the globe
The Noam Chomsky website
Eloquent and provocative critic who wrote one of the best critiques of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale
Prominent decolonial theorist
He spoke truth to power under apartheid, and he speaks truth to power under post-apartheid.