Mebrak Tareke is the founder of TiMS Creative, a global consultancy on the future of storytelling. She has written for Arnet News, Frieze, and The Brooklyn Rail on art, politics, and culture in the African diaspora and the Americas.
Opinion
The fate of innumerable sacred lives, buildings, and artifacts destroyed mainly by Ethiopian and invading Eritrean troops are still being willfully ignored by Western governments and international organizations.
Art
How might the average Mexican visitor might perceive Frida Orupabo’s Fear of Fear, in a country where Afro-Mexicans make up roughly 2% of the population?
Art
Alternative curatorial projects are taking creative risks and shaping Mexico City’s art fair ecosystem on their own terms.
Art
Miguel Calderón examines class, violence, and corruption in Mexican society with macabre, irreverent humor.
Opinion
Scores of cultural heritage sites are in ruins amid a fragile truce and an ongoing war of narratives.
Art
Nothing on the canvas wholly captures what it means to belong on land or at sea.
Art
It's hard not to question why Asmara was named a World Heritage Site, especially as the country is reeling from decades of hardship.
Art
Even if Murillo poked fun at the art world’s oblivion and privilege, what a fool I was to think that my stint in Palenque would instantly morph into a sequel to his work.
Art
At Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, a show of four artists explores how our memories of a place can shift radically after war.
Art
LIMERICK, Ireland — Still (the) Barbarians is the bold title for this year’s EVA International Biennial in Limerick.