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The Rise and Rise Of Contemporary African Art

September 28, 2018

Article via The Art Newspaper On the eve of the 1-54 fair for contemporary African art, we talk to an artist, a curator, an art fair founder, a gallerist and an auctioneer about the long overdue recognition of the diverse art of a continent. Produced in...

Modern African Art Is Being Gentrified

May 20, 2017

Photo by Turgo Bastien through Wikimedia Commons Article by Chika Okeke-Agulu, via The New York Times Sotheby’s held its first auction of modern and contemporary African art on Tuesday, where 83 pieces by artists from Cameroon to South Africa sold for a total of nearly $4 million....