New Museum Home for Looted Art – Nigeria
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nigeria 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 minutes You don’t ask permission to take back what was taken from you, now do you?
Contemporary African Photographers Highlighted 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutes How 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.
GOLD is new dialect of West African Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutes At 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.
Contemporary African Art Show Goes On!
Reading Time: 2 minutes The 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
The forgotten stars of Mali
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 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 minute For 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 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…
Best contemporary Art Fairs 2020
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…
Prête-moi Ton Rêve
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…
Contemporary Art Challenges Ethiopia
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…
Bamako Encounters: Streams of Consciousness
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…
Telling the full story of African art just got harder
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…
Nigeria renews campaign for return of looted artifacts
Reading Time: 6 minutes Nigeria 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 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.
Giggs Kgole Interview MoMAA
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…
Okwui Enwezor Curator 15th Sharjah Biennial 2021
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…
Jean Pigozzi collection African contemporary Zurich
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…
Nigerian contemporary art booms and prices soar
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…
It’s time to give back the loot
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…
Artcurial Art Auctions Morocco
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…
Fake African Art?
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…
Expressions d’Afrique
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 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 minutes Interview 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…
Pitfalls of the New Wave of Interest in African Contemporary Art
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…
How African Art Fairs are bringing more Tourism to the Continent
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…
Why Do We Need An Art Fair Dedicated To African Art?
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…
Why African women artists are bucking the market trend
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…
Sotheby’s Shines Light on Modern and Contemporary African Art
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,…
Rediscovering the Art of Ben Enwonwu
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…
Mulling Over Art: Artnet “Intelligence Report” magnifies African Art Market
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…
The meteoric rise of African 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…
The New Campaign to Bring African Art Home
Reading Time: 6 minutes For years, sub-Saharan Africa’s missing art—much of which was looted during wartimes and ended up in collections across the globe—didn’t attract the level of attention devoted to higher-profile campaigns, such as Greece’s efforts to wrest the Elgin Marbles back from Britain or Italy’s tussles with California’s Getty museum. Now new advocates are advancing the cause of African art.
Africa’s art scene may be booming, but it’s still a blip on the global market
Reading Time: 2 minutes For all the excitement around African contemporary art, the continent still accounts for a fraction of the global art market. Last year, the sales in the global art market reached a total of $63.7 billion—a 12% increase on the previous year, according to the 2018 Art Market report published last week. Compiled by Art Basel and UBS Bank, the report relies on auction sales data and dealer surveys.
Venice Biennale 2019 – A Visit.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Visiting Venice Biennale 2019 should be a must on every tourists agenda. This, the 58th Biennale in this beautiful city did not disappoint. It never does. The title of this…
Hustle is as important as technique to cash in on Africa’s Art Boom!
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…
Venice Biennale African Art 2019
Reading Time: 4 minutes Arguably considered the Olympics of Art, the Venice Art Biennale is the oldest exhibition organized for arts. It is a contemporary visual art exhibition held in Venice in odd-numbered years, thus called biennially. The Art Biennale has inspired other exhibitions throughout the world with a similar name. It is one of the oldest organizations to organize art exhibitions with the first-ever in 1895.
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