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Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama first African to top annual art power list

Artist who once draped Barbican in brightly coloured fabric says he is humbled by recognition in ArtReview rankings

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London arts centre to amplify global majority voices and ‘urgent questions’

Founded by Lina Lazaar, Ibraaz will host challenging conversations amid growing concerns over freedom of expression in the arts

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Ibrahim Mahama wraps Kunsthalle Bern in jute ahead of June reopening

At the end of April, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will wrap Kunsthalle Bern in jute sacks, revisiting a 1968 intervention by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

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The best art and architecture of 2024

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

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Edinburgh art festival 2024 review – from pure joy to war-torn desolation

Ghana’s El Anatsui’s exquisite metal masterpieces sing of tragedy, humanity and hope; compatriot Ibrahim Mahama digs deep into colonial labour; and Ukrainian photography bears witness in the festival’s most urgent show

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Edinburgh art festival review – haunting return of the railway that robbed Africa

Various venues, EdinburghThis thrilling festival features Ibrahim Mahama’s unmissable meditation on the railway that plundered Ghana, nuclear attack relics, and a stunning Chris Ofili tapestry

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London art exhibitions to see in January

Read our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from 'The 80s: Photographing Britain' at Tate Britain to Jennifer Binnie at Richard Saltoun

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Death-defying darkness, thought-provoking pop art and unrepentant nudes – the week in art

Caravaggio proves haunting, Yinka Shonibare brings colonial figures down to size and Monica Sjöö photographs the goddess feminism – all in your weekly dispatch

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Ibrahim Mahama tells us why he has covered the Barbican in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama's 'Purple Hibiscus' has transformed the Barbican’s Lakeside Terrace

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‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains why

The Guardian - UK

Lagos Biennial 2024: the highlights

Lagos Biennial 2024 took over the city’s Tafawa Balewa Square with the theme of ‘refuge’

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Nan Goldin named art world’s most influential figure

Photographer and campaigner against Sackler family tops ArtReview Power 100 list

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Education takes flight under Ghanaian artist's repurposed planes

Hundreds of meters above the village of Jenakpeng in northern Ghana, a small drone locked its sights on six airplanes parked in the middle of a verdant field miles away from the nearest runway.

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