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How Lagos Claimed Its Place as Africa's Art Hub

I’m at Art X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair that takes place every November at Victoria Island’s Federal ...
Artnet

A New Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum Explores Africa’s Flourishing Fashion and Art Scene Since the Liberation Era

At the Brooklyn Museum, an electrifying new exhibition establishes Africa as a true fashion capital, bursting with imagination, ingenuity, and its own aesthetic heritage. “African Fashion” showcases ...
The Conversation

Congo Style: how two dictators shaped the DRC’s art, architecture and monuments

Ruth Sacks receives funding from the National Arts Council for research in the Congo conducted while undergoing a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Years ago, while I was in Belgium on an ...
CNN

The Afrobeats star on a mission to raise the profile of African art

It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting ...
Artnet

How London Became a Launch Pad for Africa’s Booming Art Market

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...
The New York Times

Back in New York, an African Art Fair Relishes the Sense of Place

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is returning for its 10th year in New York, an event one collector described as “a kind of movable feast.” By Ginanne Brownell In her previous works, the ...
Forbes

Kalahari: Original African Art At America’s Largest Waterparks

Artworks at the Kalahari Resorts & Conventions don’t just look African. They are African. Hand picked by owners Todd and Shari Nelson–and family–on purchasing trips to the continent. ByChadd Scott, ...