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African Artist Collective Calls on Museums to Rectify Their Debt to Plantation Workers

The Congolese artists point out that renowned institutions like Tate, the Stedelijk, and the Ludwig Museum grew from fortunes that stemmed from plantations.

More Than Meets The Eye: A Century Of African Art Celebrated At Geneva’s Musée Rath

Drawn from the CBH Bank Collection, More than Meets the Eye charts the evolution of African and African diaspora art from ...
CNN

Moroccan artist ‘empowering’ rural communities awarded prestigious contemporary African art prize

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...
NPR

Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X

"I wanted to create a moment for Lagos on the global art calendar," says Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, the founder of Art X, sitting in a chic private booth within the fair. "A moment that brought the ...
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Inscribing meaning : writing and graphic systems in African art : exhibition preview / Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, and Allyson Purpura

The exhibition Inscribing meaning will explore the relationships between African art, language, graphic systems and the written word. It focuses on the history of particular African scripts, including ...