Reading Time: 3 minutes Inhale 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 minute Wangechi 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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes Africa’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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes Prête-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 minutes Contemporary 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 minutes This 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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes Okwui 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 minutes Jean 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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes Artcurial 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 minutes There’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 minutes Meet 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 minutes In 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 minute Sotheby’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 minutes At 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 minutes How 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 minutes In 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 minutes In 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 minutes Sotheby’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 minutes In 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 minutes Mulling 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 minutes The 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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