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Oct 24, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Ekow Eshun

Two years ago, Hew Locke was invited by the British Museum to create an exhibition combining his work with a personal selection drawn from the museum collection. It was a dream project for Locke, the realisation of a decades-long fascination with the myriad wonders of the museum. In 1987, as a student at Falmouth Art School, he had rescued two reproduction models of Benin Bronze plaques held at the British Museum, that were due to be thrown out, and placed them on his wall.

Sep 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Oskar Oprey |DiaryThe HEAT |Bryan Barcena |Ekow Eshun

Michel Houellebecq vents againI think I’m going to learn French, if only to keep up with Michel Houellebecq. The aging bad boy of letters has been embroiled in a fresh crop of scandals these past few years, the plotlines worthy of an X-rated soap opera on Canal+. First there’s his legal battle with Dutch art collective KIRAC—they collaborated on a pornographic film project together, in which audiences would have seen Houellebecq having sex with women other than his wife.

Sep 18, 2024 | artforum.com | Bryan Barcena |Ekow Eshun |Jan Tumlir |Eve Hill-Agnus

Frieze Seoul and the Gwangju BiennaleComing from Los Angeles and its housing issues—born of its charming but inefficient sprawl—it’s impossible to see urban density, and the juxtapositions it creates, as the sign of a well-functioning, twenty-first-century city.

Sep 13, 2024 | artforum.com | Ekow Eshun |Tina Rivers Ryan |Elinor Hitt |Editor’S Lettermoment

On his feature film debut and exhibition, "Exhibiting Forgiveness"Titus Kaphar creates artworks that explore questions of Black presence and absence, visibility and erasure—big social and political themes he navigates through the specificity of personal experience. Exhibiting Forgiveness, his powerful feature-film debut, showing first at his Gagosian Beverly Hills exhibition of the same name before debuting nationwide in October, is inspired by his fraught relationship with his father.

Sep 21, 2023 | aperture.org | Ekow Eshun

The German Ghanaian artist Zohra Opoku first visited Ghana in 2003, having grown up in East Germany. In 2011, she relocated to Accra, where the emotional and aesthetic inspiration she finds in the city has become a prevailing element in her art. As Opoku says, “Once you are in Ghana, Ghana becomes you and you become Ghana.”Through a practice centered on textiles and photography, Opoku explores nuanced themes of cultural identity.