Hundreds of life-size animal puppets have begun a 20,000km (12,400 mile) journey from central Africa to the Arctic Circle as part of an ambitious project created by the team behind …
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‘I like pushing boundaries’: Yinka Shonibare on his landmark art show in Madagascar
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. Earlier this month I was in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where I checked out the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo exhibition in Africa. …
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Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025
From a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, 2024 was a big year for museums opening in …
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‘An underlying stillness’: the Yinka Shonibare retreat where artists have space to grow and thrive
Perched on a hilltop and surrounded by a lush 22-hectare (54-acre) farm, the G.A.S. Farm House outside the village of Ikiṣẹ in southern Nigeria is not your average place for …
Untitled, 1988 Produced during a career of only six years, Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain. Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire …
Beirut, Lebanon A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet heading for a building in Ghobeiry, Beirut. In a social media post earlier in the day, the Israeli military warned residents …
