“All over the world museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the ...

John Akomfrah‘s multichannel video installations are all-encompassing: the color, sound, and especially juxtaposition of historical footage with contemporary imagery make for a truly absorbing ...

Watching one of John Akomfrah’s multi-channel video installations is like walking into an alternate reality, one that collapses past and present, music and noise, epic landscapes and banal scenes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Akomfrah: Arcadia - Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery Cutlasses and caterpillars; bubbles floating past camera; a ...

“Vertigo Sea” (2015) installation view: John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire New Museum, New York, 2018; courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery (all photos: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio) John ...

John Akomfrah dreams of finding a passage north, undiscovered and unspoiled. The motif appears over and over in the artist’s sweeping video installations, two of which are on view on the National Mall ...

After a three year hiatus, the New Museum welcomed back art lovers and patrons to its Spring Gala in New York City. Recent Academy Award winner Danny Glover was on hand to honor his dear friend John ...

John Akomfrah will work with the UK curator Tarini Malik on the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the British Council has announced. Malik, a former curator at the Whitechapel Gallery and the ...

John Akomfrah came to prominence with his directorial debut Handsworth Songs, which examined the fallout from the 1985 riots in Birmingham and established his multi-layered visual style. The ...

John Akomfrah, widely recognised as one of Britain's most expansive and intellectually rewarding film-makers, has never been afraid of a battle. Back in the 1970s, when he was barely out of his teens, ...

But if a would-be John Akomfrah tried today to leave Africa for England, death and anonymity — not acclaim — would be the likely result. “People are trying desperately to flee all parts of the world ...