African artist Ezrom Legae, a lesser known figure in protest art, addressed the institutionalized racism of the South African system of apartheid that existed from 1948 to 1990 in particular — and ...

Jonathan Carver Moore Jonathan Carver Moore is honoring Pride month with the debut of a powerful new art exhibition comprised solely of works by Black ...

Independent art spaces are collectives of artists (and others) who club together to set up a communal space often in former ...

Zak Ové reframes dominant narratives about the African diaspora, interrogating the past to posit what he calls "potential ...

More than 100 Pan-African artists, ranging from 4 to 93 years old, came together for the Juneteenth Art Expo at The Drawing Studio, displaying paintings, sculptures, textiles, mixed media and more.

Determined to promote creativity and the artist behind it, Absa L’Atelier, in collaboration with South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), recently hosted ‘Thorns and Crown’, a ...

Africa through its European colonial masters and after its independence in the 1960s was kept in the darkness of understanding basics and advanced aspects of life and the world on an academic level .

She lived in Cape Town, South Africa from 2019. There she was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz MOCAA museum. It holds the continent’s largest collection of contemporary art.

There are some unwelcome signs in the market for contemporary and Modern African art. In 2023 auction sales in this category fell a little—by 8% to $79.8m, according to the analysts ArtTactic ...

This trend, however, has changed as collectors from around the world increasingly appreciate African art's rich history and significance. While the contemporary African art market's dollar value ...

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 city has some fantastic art galleries, and of course, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which attracts more international visitors every year. But what sets MACAAL apart is that it’s ...