SAN FRANCISCO — What is Africa? Africa State of Mind compels us to answer variations on that difficult question. The show, curated by Ekow Eshun at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), does more ...
Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, ...
For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...
The dominant trend in global contemporary art over the past five to ten years has been a foregrounding of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Leading institutions and collectors worldwide ...
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Here’s How the Met Raised $70 Million to Revamp Its African and Oceanic Galleries. (It Wasn’t Easy.)
Some surprising patrons from the contemporary art realm provided assistance. Asmat funerary poles in the arts of Oceania galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
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DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...
Alioune Diouf, Fabrice Monteiro, and Omar Ba utilize age-old motifs from African culture and spirituality to create contemporary artworks that tell the story of the African identity. All three artists ...
A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African ...
A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...
The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30. 🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with ...
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