Interview – Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe
Reading Time: 4 minutesInterview – Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe. Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo in conversation with the Congolese Artist on Nzoloko, or The Art of Scarification.
Facing the Ghost Behind the Statue
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Facing the Ghost Behind the Statue – An opinion piece by Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo ‘Statues do not have feelings or a heart’ – The Congolese community in London…
Spotlight – Serge Diakota Mabilama
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the Spotlight – Serge Diakota Mabilama by Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo. Many of us anticipated the year 2020, especially in the art world, open up more discussions and spread…
Nigeria launches Art Gallery Aggregator
Reading Time: 2 minutesNigeria launches Art Gallery Aggregator. It was launched with ten Nigerian galleries that represent more than two hundred and fifty artists.
New Museum Home for Looted Art – Nigeria
Reading Time: 2 minutesNigeria intends to build a new museum over the next four years that could exhibit looted Benin bronzes currently displayed in European and American museums, officials said Friday.
Stolen African Art Activism
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou don’t ask permission to take back what was taken from you, now do you?
Contemporary African Photographers Highlighted 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow best can Contemporary African Photographers Highlighted 2020 ? How would you capture a spirit of a country? Through Art, culture and opportunity of articulation of ideas. There is another new age of photographers that are giving Africa a standard voice, speaking to a cutting edge landmass that is glancing forward in its standards and goals.
Christie’s Black Artist Exhibition Not For Resale
Reading Time: 3 minutesChristie’s Black Artist Exhibition Not For Resale to avoid speculators flipping the art work on the secondary African Art Market
GOLD is new dialect of West African Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the point when Gold West Africa propelled, in June 2019, a gathering to build up the West African gold economy, bringing Nigerian, provincial and global gold partners together, there was no uncertainty that it would return in 2020 for its subsequent version.
Classical African Statue Art Sale Sotheby’s
Reading Time: 2 minutesClassical African Statue Art Sale Sotheby’s. That Sotheby’s will offer an African reliquary statue in its contemporary art evening sale in New York during the week of June 29, marking the first time a work of classical African art will be auctioned alongside masterpieces from
Reshaping Art Auction Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesMajor London-based house Sotheby’s has closed its London, Hong Kong, Dubai, Geneva, Milan, Paris and New York offices, throwing their marquee May auctions into doubt.
COVID-19 Artists & Art Market
Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to COVID-19 Artists & Art Market , artists have already begun to adapt to the changes and bring their practices online, there are many unknown that they will face in the coming days. Just because in-person gatherings are not happening doesn’t mean that you can’t view art and keep up on openings. In response to event closures, institutions and individuals are getting creative about how their work is shared with
Golden Age of Mali Photography
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGolden Age of Mali Photography is showcased in an itinerant exhibition platform celebrating African photography, with an emphasis on Mali’s rich archive, was founded by Moroccan art consultant Myriem Baadi via Black Shade Projects
Contemporary African Art Show Goes On!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe exhibition aims to highlight the originality and diversity of African artists who live and work in sub-Saharan Africa. The museum has invited André Magnin as guest curator. He has a long-standing relationship with Africa, and possesses a deep level of insight, knowledge and experience regarding various local art scenes on the African continent. Magnin was one of the
Demand for African Art Soars
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Demand for African Art Soars, Sparking Concerns About a Masterwork Exodus, Naomi Rea ArtNews visits the 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakesh While some fear foreign speculators will snap up…
The forgotten stars of Mali
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn The forgotten stars of Malian photography’s Golden Age, Helen Jennings explores the sometimes overlooked master photographers to come out of Mali who have to flourish under the limelight of some of the greatest names in Photography.
Contemporary African Art Maastricht
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in its 32-year history, the recently cut-short Tefaf (The European Fine Art Fair) Maastricht had a booth dedicated to contemporary art from the African continent. The London-based exhibitor, Tafeta, was among the five selected for this year’s Showcase section,
Black by Rembrandt
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…
Playing Catch Up Collecting African Art
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…
Africa’s art market takes off!
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.…
Why is modern art so expensive?
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…
Bamako Encounters Contemporary African Photography
Reading Time: 3 minutesBamako Encounters Contemporary African Photography is characterized by Playful and bold, the images of Contemporary African Photography. Biennial subvert advertising tropes, interrogate beauty standards, examine the effects of urban life…
Best contemporary Art Fairs 2020
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…
Prête-moi Ton Rêve
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…
Contemporary Art Challenges Ethiopia
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…
Bamako Encounters: Streams of Consciousness
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…
Telling the full story of African art just got harder
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…
Nigeria renews campaign for return of looted artifacts
Reading Time: 6 minutesNigeria renews campaign for return of looted artifactsReturning African artefacts taken by explorers and colonisers has remained a serious issue in Europe-Africa relations. Gregory Austin Nwakunor (Arts and Culture Editor…
Repatriation of African Art
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.
Giggs Kgole Interview MoMAA
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…
Okwui Enwezor Curator 15th Sharjah Biennial 2021
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…
Jean Pigozzi collection African contemporary Zurich
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…
Nigerian contemporary art booms and prices soar
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…
It’s time to give back the loot
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…
Artcurial Art Auctions Morocco
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…
Fake African Art?
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…
Meet the Black Photographers Who Are Changing Fashion
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…
A Photographer’s Guide to Marrakech
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…
Expressions d’Afrique
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Expressions d’Afrique – Inside Jean Pigozzi’s Collection opens at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich via ArtFixDaily Only three months after the announcement by the MoMA of having received 45 works of…
Interview Cyrus Kabiru MoMAA
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Cyrus Kabiru MoMAAIn our latest Interview Cyrus Kabiru MoMAA who Is Best Known World Wide For His Eye Wear, C-Stunners, His Intricate Sculptural Works Push The Boundaries Of Conventional…
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Auction 2019
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…
Pitfalls of the New Wave of Interest in African Contemporary Art
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…
How African Art Fairs are bringing more Tourism to the Continent
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…
Why Do We Need An Art Fair Dedicated To African Art?
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…
Why African women artists are bucking the market trend
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…
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