Arts and Culture
NEW YORK TIMES Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show
BBC Why 1960 was a turning point for Africa
NEW YORK TIMES ‘Rye Lane’ Aims to Show You a Real London Love Story
BBC Zanele Muholi: Unflinching images that confront injustice
BBC Lubaina Himid: The artist who skewers white privileg
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA Your World is About to Change (On Kara Walker)
NEW YORK TIMES On and Off ‘Ted Lasso,’ Toheeb Jimoh Has Stepped Out of the Background
Artnet Isaac Julien on Using the Gaps in Historical Archives As Springboards for Reinvention
Artnet Why Alice Neel’s Soulful Portraits Have Found New Resonance With Artists and Audiences Today
NEW YORK TIMES At Ballet Black, Creating Opportunity for British Dancers
THE ECONOMIST The unlikely partnership of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
BBC Seven striking images by Africa's new creative wave
BBC 'The most important painting of the 21st Century'
THE ECONOMIST Art is revitalising vacant shopfronts in New York
BBC The birth of the Black is Beautiful movement
BBC The art exploring the truth about how climate change began
NEW YORK TIMES In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences
THE GUARDIAN Cost-of-living nightmare meets cutesy romance: The Flatshare gets it right about London’s awful rental market
BBC The artists fighting racism
THE ECONOMIST Teresita Fernández’s ways of seeing
SOHO HOUSE How pioneering Black filmmakers helped build Hollywood
FINANCIAL TIMES Fantasy home: a cluttered New York loft inspired by US teen drama, Gossip Girl
ART UK Marina Abramović: why the artist is not present in her latest show
GAL-DEM Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints whatever she damn well wants
i-D MAGAZINE The Ghanaian photographer capturing the beauty of twins
i-D MAGAZINE The artist painting otherworldy, erotic figures born from her own mythology
THE FINANCIAL TIMES Nigeria’s alté scene: ‘It’s not just about the music, it’s about freedom’
GLORIOUS SPORT Meet the American photographer who is showcasing an unseen side of Western culture
THE TELEGRAPH If you're not guzzling French television and feeling smug about it, you're doing lockdown wrong
FINANCIAL TIMES Does Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ mark a new chapter for black characters in horror?
THE TELEGRAPH From Halston to The Crown - why the super-rich will never enjoy seeing their lives dramatised on TV
THE TELEGRAPH 'Black women are going through three pandemics': Nao on empowering others through her music
THE TELEGRAPH “Rebel Sounds” explores the politicisation of music in wartime
i-D MAGAZINE Sola Olulode paints Black queer couples in bed
THE TELEGRAPH Kate has good sense in sitting a DJing career out - unlike other super-rich stars
THE TELEGRAPH The Kardashians' most outrageous luxury moments, from diamond rings to lordships
THE TELEGRAPH Singer Rina Sawayama talks racism, identity and owning her own narrative through music
THE TELEGRAPH Prince, identity and Sister Act: Lianne La Havas shares her story
REFINERY29 Cynthia Erivo Is Everything Hollywood Needs & More
THE TELEGRAPH Mahalia: ‘I have taken control of my beauty and my confidence’
THE TELEGRAPH 'Being at the BBC has given me confidence - and now I speak with authority'
KINFOLK It's knot you (the sweater curse)
KINFOLK Michael Kiwanuka
REFINERY29 This Scene In She's Gotta Have It Gets The Black British Experience All Wrong
GAL-DEM Get Up, Stand Up Now … and see this exhibition celebrating the expansive black British imagination
BBC Style, beauty and black identity
KINFOLK Word: Hygiene Theater
THE ART NEWSPAPER Memphis non-profit supports both African American audiences and artists
FINANCIAL TIMES Does Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ mark a new chapter for black characters in horror?
CRACK MAGAZINE KOKOROKO are harnessing the transformative nature of Afrobeat for a new generation
VICE What the closure of total refreshment centre means for london’s burgeoning jazz scene
i-D MAGAZINE Why do tv shows like insatiable continue to get produced?
ART NEWS Esteban Jefferson's Portrait of the Petit Palais
GAL-DEM How four women and non-binary people of colour used self-portraits as a vehicle for rebellion
VICE When Beloved Live Music Venues Come Back from the Dead