Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Akomfrah: Arcadia - Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery Cutlasses and caterpillars; bubbles floating past camera; a ...

John Akomfrah, the British-Ghanaian artist whose ambitious films and screened installations have tackled colonial legacies, climate change, and immigration, has been selected to represent Britain at ...

The Olympics-style structure of the Venice Biennale is special because it’s unique, but it is also unique for a reason: art and nationalism—even the soft, cultural kind—rarely align in their goals.

After a three year hiatus, the New Museum welcomed back art lovers and patrons to its Spring Gala in New York City. Recent Academy Award winner Danny Glover was on hand to honor his dear friend John ...

Director's foreword / Lisa Phillips -- Geography lessons: mapping the slide-tape texts of Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-84 / Zoe Whitley -- Plates: Expeditions one: Signs of empire -- A mysterious ...

A founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah has explored Black life in Britain and beyond through acute observational films. Hyperallergic: Did you start out wanting to do something ...

John Akomfrah: Purple introduces the artist’s largest ever video installation, an immersive six-channel work, to Washington, D.C., for the first time. An enveloping, hour-long symphony of image and ...

Jamaican-British sociology scholar, Hall is heard to remark: “Every new configuration contains masses of the old.” He was referring to the way history repeats itself — uncannily, inevitably — yet ...

Lauded British-African filmmaker John Akomfrah’s aesthetically captivating and poignant homage to Jamaican polymath, cultural theorist and British intellectual Stuart Hall is a real must-see, and one ...

As visitors enter the gallery now housing the climate artwork “Purple” by John Akomfrah at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., they are greeted by a light sculpture made out of dirty plastic ...

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John Akomfrah is a British artist and filmmaker. He co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective with friends while studying at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982, and since then has continued his ...