Reading Time: 9 minutesThese museums don’t just hang art—they engineer reverence. From the Louvre’s belief funnel to the Vatican’s scale flex to the Noguchi’s silence-as-strategy, this piece explores 12 institutions that use space, story, and scarcity to turn architecture into awe. If you’re building brands, systems, or cultural IP—this is the real playbook.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOnce the reserve of the disaffected and the clandestine, street art, in all its forms, has come to wield an influence far beyond the realm of graffiti, becoming a conduit for social change. Urban murals, those vast, intricately designed works that adorn the walls of our cities, have become particularly potent, acting as a canvas for artists to comment on the world around them.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesInhale the air of the African continent, and exhale the spirit of contemporary artistry. As an astute observer of the creative world, I find myself intrigued by the fusion of traditional and modern art forms, especially when it comes to African art.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWangechi Mutu at Fort Worth Modern with The Seated III, a 7-foot-tall bronze figure by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, has recently taken up permanent residence at the Modern Art Museum…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Black by Rembrandt, Deborah Nicholls-Lee explores a myth-shattering exhibition on identity and truth A new exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam tells the story of the black…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn playing Catch up collecting African Art, Sam Gaskin explains the spate of new residencies aiming to redress the underrepresentation of African artists in the West. A decade ago, the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfrica’s art market takes off! as investors pile in – Driven by a growing market of indigenous investors, African art is commanding increasingly high prices at the world’s auction houses.…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this Video Charlie Floyd explores the reasons as to Why is modern art so expensive? exploring the start of the modern art era with the birth of photography. From…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Best contemporary Art Fairs 2020, Allyssia Alleyne discovers From South Africa to Morocco, fairs including new and established creatives are drawing art lovers and buyers alike. African art has…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrête-moi Ton Rêve or ‘Lend me your Dream’ is a touring exhibition Fully organised and created by Africans, and featuring the continent’s finest contemporary artists Entering its second leg of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesContemporary Art Challenges Ethiopia – Walls, domes and the exteriors of the magnificent Medhane Alem Cathedral in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa are embellished with colorful portraits and life-size paintings…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis article Bamako Encounters: Streams of Consciousness by Tom Seymour was published in issue #7890 of British Journal of Photography BJP. Weeks after a nationwide state of emergency is lifted, Mali’s capital…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Telling the full story of African art just got harder, As told to Patrick Smith in July 2019. Gus Casely-Hayford was recently announced as the new director for London’s…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ended an Egyptian art exhibition titled “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin” after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office revealed that the provenance of the golden coffin had been faked by a Parisian art dealer in 1971.
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn Giggs Kgole Interview MoMAA, African Rising Star, Contemporary artist Giggs Kgole says his Win of the Young Masters Award is not only a win for Kgole, but a win…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOkwui Enwezor Curator 15th Sharjah Biennial 2021 stated by Art Forum The 2021 edition of the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates will stage the last show by the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesJean Pigozzi collection African contemporary Zurich highlights of th Show in Zurich by Leonidas Kalai via art-critique Jean Pigozzi, the French collector, photographer and automobile heir recently made headlines for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Nigerian contemporary art booms and prices soar, AFP explores the recent boost in Sales of Art from Nigeria championed by Ben Enwonwu. First there was Tutu, the “African Mona…
Reading Time: 9 minutesIn It’s time to give back the loot, Geoffrey Robertson questions, By what right do western museums and billionaire collectors keep property they know to have been stolen in earlier…
Reading Time: 2 minutesArtcurial Art Auctions MoroccoParis auction house Artcurial is opening an office in Morocco. Launching a permanent subsidiary in Marrakesh, the firm will now start holding regular sales at the famous…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere’s been a spike in fake African art. What’s being done to fight it, writes Gerard de Kamper, Chief Curator Collections, lecturer, PhD candidate, University of Pretoria. The art world has…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeet the Black Photographers Who Are Changing Fashion The New Black Vanguard features 15 groundbreaking image-makers. by Devine Blacksher for the Cut In 2018, when Anna Wintour hired Tyler Mitchell to…
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn A Photographer’s Guide to Marrakech Trupti Rami shows us Emerging fashion boutiques, lamb burgers on a rooftop, and where to see contemporary African art. It’s commonly understood that the…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSotheby’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Auction 2019On October 15, Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Auction 2019 raised a grand total of £ 3.2 million (£ 4 million including…
Reading Time: 7 minutesAt London’s 1–54 Fair, Curator Azu Nwagbogu Lays Out the Pitfalls of the New Wave of Interest in African Contemporary Art. The former Zeitz Mocaa curator and founder of LagosPhoto…
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow African Art Fairs are bringing more Tourism to the Continent by Melissa Twigg for WeAreAfricaTravel London, New York, Paris and Miami. The world’s most important art fairs are still largely…
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn Why Do We Need An Art Fair Dedicated To African Art? Rebecca Anne Proctor asks Will African contemporary art need to be viewed in isolation as it becomes more…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn why Why African women artists are bucking the market trend, Ann Shaw states The growing success of female African artists marks an exciting shift in the market. Recent research…
Reading Time: 3 minutesSotheby’s Shines Light on Modern and Contemporary African Art by By Abby Schultz Sotheby’s established its first auction dedicated to modern and contemporary African art two years ago to draw attention,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Rediscovering the Art of Ben Enwonwu by Farah Nayeri – Decades after his death, one of Africa’s most famous artists is gaining renewed attention, and his pieces are bringing…
Reading Time: 6 minutesMulling Over Art: Artnet “Intelligence Report” magnifies African Art Market In its latest “Intelligence Report” released on 10th September titled Welcome to the Age of the Art Industry (The Art…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe meteoric rise of African art by Amah-Rose Abrams for Evening Standard It’s a mid-summer evening in the capital and the queue of London art scene insiders and celebrities is snaking around…
Reading Time: 4 minutes… Cash in on Africa’s Art Boom … @lynseychutel East of Nairobi, Buruburu is a neighborhood of cul-de-sacs that the city’s public servants and middle-income professionals call home. It’s the…
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