Free or Fettered?

A Review of the Freedom Exhibition at NMK Red wine, tea biscuits, camembert and peanut butter are all tasty treats but you really don’t want them all at one meal. The same goes for the artists who were grouped together at the ‘Freedom’ exhibition, where a few breathtaking works were diminished by incompatible pieces and the barren show space that always feels so hollow. But if you’re keen to catch a handful of exquisite works this month, a trip to Nairobi National Museum is still worth the visit. Sudanese artist, El Tayeb Dawelbait, whose mixed-media work ‘The Spirit of Faces’ sold to Robert...