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Temperature Check: Is Africa’s Art Market Cooling?
Alongside the growth of art fairs in Africa in recent years, international interest in contemporary African artists has risen sharply… some would say to unsustainable heights. Amid a global ...
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SUNO honors Edward DeCarbo with African art exhibition
The Southern University at New Orleans Museum of Art is set to open its latest exhibition, "Liminal Spaces: Selections from the Edward DeCarbo Collection of African Art," honoring the late Dr ...
The Art Newspaper27d
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair's Marrakech edition invites ‘deeper engagement’
The 1-54 Contemporary African Art fair will return to Morocco this month for its sixth Marrakech edition (30 January-2 February), the smallest of its fairs which organisers hope will allow for ...
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MACAAL’s Othman Lazraq on creating a permanent home for African contemporary art in Marrakech
With significant support from Fondation Alliances, Morocco's MACAAL (Musuem of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden) has undergone a major overhaul – providing a permanent home for one of the ...
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech draws collectors from around the world
A contemporary art fair has energised the local creative scene in Morocco’s tourist hub of Marrakech, drawing on the famed city’s aesthetic legacy to propel emerging African artists into the ...
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Art fair in Marrakesh brings African art to global stage
MARRAKESH - In Morocco's tourist hub of Marrakesh, a contemporary art fair has energised the local creative scene, drawing on the famed city's aesthetic legacy to propel emerging African artists ...
France 2413d
Art fair in Marrakesh brings African art to global stage
Marrakesh (Morocco) (AFP) – In Morocco's tourist hub of Marrakesh, a contemporary art fair has energised the local creative scene, drawing on the famed city's aesthetic legacy to propel emerging ...
The Conversation26d
Five artists, five nations: taking to the road to find southern Africa’s hidden stories
Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia – in pursuit ...
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‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art
“For example, there was a fantastic show that I helped organize on the Medu Art Ensemble, which is an anti-apartheid South African artist collective, a few years ago. But on this scale, to my ...
The New York Times23d
The Africa Center’s New Leader Focuses on Connection
Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat, said his past work positions him to build on the Africa Center’s diverse programming that goes beyond art. By Dionne Searcey The Africa Center in New ...
Chicago Sun-Times25d
‘Project a Black Planet’ a history-making survey of Pan-African works at the Art Institute
“For example, there was a fantastic show that I helped organize on the Medu Art Ensemble, which is an anti-apartheid South African artist collective, a few years ago. But on this scale, to my ...