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Exhibition exploring Figuration in Contemporary African Art starts the year for Strauss & Co Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Strauss & Co’s first offering of …
A new wave of internationally celebrated South African artists, among them Nicholas Hlobo, Athi-Patra Ruga and Simphiwe Ndzube, lead Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated Contemporary Art auction, due to be held in Cape Town on 15 …
Strauss & Co’s 2020 Contemporary Art Sale is a bumper offering of pan-African talent Read Article
Hacer Noche/Crossing Night Shortly after his country’s independence from France in 1960, Senegal’s charismatic first president, Léopold Senghor, began mooting plans for a museum celebrating black achievement. The project gained focus after Senghor visited Mexico …
Mexico’s first-ever showcase of South African art Read Article
Igshaan Adams, Rahma (Grace), 2018. Glass and acrylic beads, 306 x 280 cm. Courtesy of the artist & blank projects. The Cape Town space blank projects is the winner of the Armory Show’s …
