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Grass Roots – African Origins of an American Art
Grass Roots – African Origins of an American Art A new exhibition and several public programs at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College explore the impact of African coiled...
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Social fabric – African textiles today
Social fabric – African textiles today The making and trading of cloth have been vital elements in African culture for at least two millennia. Through cloth we can understand not only Africa’s history...
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Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen – Suñu Jant
Olafur Eliasson & Frederik Ottesen – Suñu Jant Raw Material Company announces the exhibition Suñu Jant marking the launch of Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen’s Little Sun solar-powered lamp in...
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Sowei Masks – The Spirit of Sierra Leone
Sowei Masks – The Spirit of Sierra Leone Sowei masks – unique to the region around Sierra Leone – are worn by senior members of the all-female Sande Society during rite-of-passage ceremonies that...
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Contemporary And (C&) – New perspectives for African contemporary art
Contemporary And (C&) – New perspectives for African contemporary art Contemporary And (C&) is an international online platform for diverse and critical insights into, and perspectives on,...
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Netsa Art Village: Contemporary Art from Ethiopia
Netsa Art Village: Contemporary Art from Ethiopia Contemporary Ethiopian artist Tamrat Gazahegn shows off one of his paintings at the Netsa Art Village in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tamrat is part of a...
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal...
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Trade Routes – Connecting art from Africa, China, Europe, India, and the...
Trade Routes – Connecting art from Africa, China, Europe, India, and the Middle East Trade routes have connected the major centres of civilisation in Europe and Asia since antiquity. These routes not...
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First major exhibition of Tanzanian art in the U.S. in Portland
First major exhibition of Tanzanian art in the U.S. in Portland This summer, the Portland Museum of Art hosts the first exhibition of Tanzanian art in the United States. Shangaa: Art of Tanzania, on...
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Hidden Treasures of African, Indian and Australian Art
Hidden Treasures of African, Indian and Australian Art Griff Rhys Jones sets off on a series of adventures to find out what extraordinary treasure is still being created in far-off places by the...
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LACMA opens African art gallery with masterworks from central Africa
LACMA opens African art gallery with masterworks from central Africa The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the first...
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Visionary Modernist: Ibrahim El-Salahi’s first major exhibition in the UK at...
Visionary Modernist: Ibrahim El-Salahi’s first major exhibition in the UK at Tate Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930). Bringing...
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LACMA opens African art gallery with masterworks from central Africa
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks from the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the first exhibition to inaugurate LACMA’s new African art gallery and related...
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Visionary Modernist: Ibrahim El-Salahi’s first major exhibition in the UK at...
Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930). Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this...
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The Tribal Art Fair
Running from 25 to 27 October, the Tribal Art Fair in Amsterdam this year presents nineteen dealers showing objects from Oceania, Africa, Indonesia, South America, Tibet and the Philippines. The...
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Museum for African Art reopens as New Africa Center
“Though still under construction, the building formerly known as the Museum for African Art flung open its doors on Thursday night for a party celebrating its reinvention as the New Africa Center....
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1:54 – Contemporary African Art Fair in London
1:54 is the first international contemporary African art fair, which will be held in London between the 16-20 October 2013 in Somerset House. 1:54 is an independent fair designed by architect David...
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Brussels: World’s “last” colonial gallery gets reboot
The world’s “last” colonial gallery, Brussels’ dusty Royal Museum of Central Africa, closes this month to re-emerge with a new vision of the continent more than a half-century after the independence...
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American Art in Dialogue with Africa and its Diaspora
This two-day symposium at the Smithsonianexamined the role of Africa and its diaspora in the development of art of the United States, from nineteenth-century portraiture to American modernism; from...
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Afrofuturism – The Shadows Took Shape
This fall, The Studio Museum in Harlem presents The Shadows Took Shape, a dynamic interdisciplinary exhibition exploring contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics. Coined in 1994 by...
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