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Spotlighting Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa as excitement builds for dedicated auction in Paris. Aspire Art Auctions presents a co-curated auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art in collaboration with French auction house Piasa, […]
Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris Read Article
The African Space Projects intends to send work by an African artist into space in 2021 on the nose of an Ariane 5 rocket. African Artists for Development (AAD) – a philanthropic organisation founded by
African art to be launched into space Read Article
Bag Factory Artists’ Studio has announced Helena Uambembe, Oupa L. Sibeko and Wezile Mgibe as the winners of the 2019 David Koloane Award The annual award, launched to honour the life and career of the
Bag Factory Announces 2019 David Koloane Award Winners Read Article
The Museum of Modern Art receives transformative gift from African contemporary art collector Jean Pigozzi The Museum of Modern Art announces a major gift of 45 works of African contemporary art from the prolific collector
Jean Pigozzi donates contemporary African art to MoMA Read Article
‘Kubatana’ presented at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Norway, is gallerist and curator Kristin Hjellegjerde’s recent curatorial undertaking that presented a large scale exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary African art in Scandinavia. ART AFRICA caught up with Hjellegjerde
The first large scale exhibition of African art in Scandinavia Read Article
Contemporary African art maintains market momentum. Aspire Art Auctions reveals exceptional Moshekwa Langa amidst increased international attention. Moshekwa Langa, hand thrown distance, 2000, pen, pencil, acrylic, enamel and spraypaint on paper, 140 x 100 cm.
SPRING 18 FOCUS: Contemporary African Art: Moshekwa Langa Read Article
To what extent do copyright holders have control over their copyrighted work? Three recent disputes in the USA raise the question of the extent of artists’ control over the use of their copyrighted work by
Artists Assert Rights over Copyrighted Art Read Article
ART AFRICA | Interview with Marion Boehm| ARTCO ART AFRICA: You were born in Duisburg, Germany and have lived in Italy, France, and are currently working in Frankfurt, Germany as well as in Johannesburg,
ICTAF’18 – Marion Boehm Read Article
Arts Council of African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial 2017 While in the global spotlight at present African contemporary art is still in the territory of achieving some ‘firsts’. This past August, Arts Council for African
Continental Shift and Generational Drift Read Article
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair closed its fifth consecutive London edition on Sunday 8 October 2017. This edition showcased 42 leading specialist galleries from 17 countries, 11 of which exhibited at the London fair
1:54 completes successful 2017 London edition Read Article
