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John Akomfrah

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

April 2024

  • Hamad Abu Aliah stands in his torched home at al-Mughayier village in the West Bank.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
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  • Voices from the ether come and go … John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

    John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

  • Man in glasses points fingers to temples in front of red wall and desk with artwork on the ceiling

    ‘Not even a pipe dream’: John Akomfrah represents Britain at Venice Biennale

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    ‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

November 2023

  • There is always a man on the shore, his back to us … a still from John Akomfrah’s Arcadia.

    John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses

    Akomfrah, who is set to represent Great Britain at next year’s Venice Biennale, tackles conquest, plague and death with this five-screen installation. But there is too much going on to concentrate

January 2023

  • Alberta Whittle's C is for Colonial Fantasy, 2017 C-type digital collage, Diasec mounted on aluminium

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Bath’s slavery past, an exiled Iraqi and Britain’s first celebs – the week in art

  • John Akomfrah at the Barbican, London, in 2017.

    John Akomfrah to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

May 2022

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    John Akomfrah on Stuart Hall: ‘When I first read him, I thought he was white’

    The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall

April 2021

  • John Akomfrah Triptych, 2020 (film still) 3 Screens 10 minutes © Smoking Dogs Films, courtesy Lisson Gallery

    Apocalypse now: John Akomfrah’s The Unintended Beauty of Disaster

    Lisson Gallery, London
    With a relentless video onslaught, Akomfrah confronts colonialism, slavery, migrants and the obliteration of the natural world with astonishing results

March 2021

  • A square, colourful abstract painting featuring crimson and orange curved shapes scattered on a pale background, with darker blue objects in the top right hand corner

    Honey, they shrunk the art … top artists create works for tiny gallery

  • Carrie Mae Weems’s installation Repeating the Obvious, part of the Artes Mundi prize exhibition in Cardiff

    Artes Mundi review – around the world in richly absorbing art

December 2020

  • Rex Whistler restaurant

    Future of Tate Britain's 'offensive' Rex Whistler mural under review

    Judgment by the Tate’s ethics committee means restaurant in room with mural may close

October 2020

  • Video art

    From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works

    Starting with experimental film in the 60s, video art has revolutionised the art world. We celebrate the medium through its most groundbreaking pieces

March 2020

  • View of an empty gallery at El Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, March 12, 2020. The spread of the new coronavirus continues disrupting normal life in parts of Spain, and it’s also affecting sports, cultural and all sorts of leisure events after the government imposed a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people and to cut to a third the maximum audience of all venues holding indoor sports or cultural events. Exhibitions, conferences, sports centers and museums are closing in Madrid, including the Spanish capital’s Prado Museum for the first time in eight decades. The museum, which hosts works by Francisco de Goya and Diego de Velazquez, among other Spanish and European artists, was forced to shut down last during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    Private view: our art critic's favourite online galleries

    The world’s great art museums have closed their doors – but you can travel within their walls virtually to see treasures up close

September 2019

  • From left: Tatlin’s Whisper #5, The Clock, The Weather Project, Pussy Riot, The Battle of Orgreave

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The best art of the 21st century

    Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000

June 2019

  • Zak Ové with one of his sculptures

    UK galleries have embraced black artists, says exhibition curator

  • Talking Presence, 1987

    Get Up, Stand Up Now: Black British art's response to the Windrush scandal

May 2019

  • Swallowed Sun (Monstrance and Volute), 2019 by Martin Puryear outside the US pavilion in Venice.

    Venice Biennale 2019 review – preaching to the converted

  • John Akomfrah. The Ghana Pavilion, curated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim and designed by David Adjaye, at the 58th Biennale di Venezia. Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. Photograph by David Levene 6/5/19

    Ghana shakes up art's 'sea of whiteness' with first Venice pavilion

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