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Established in 1960 between lake and mountain, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival is today the largest event in the world dedicated to this cinematography. Supplemented in 1985 by the International Animation Film Market (Mifa), in June the Festival brings together more than 12,000 participants, students, professionals and journalists from 92 countries.For 6 days, there are screenings of films...
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Annecy Festival spotlights African animation films
Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, today expressed deep gratitude to philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott on behalf of the institution’s Board of Trustees, staff, and community for providing the Museum with an extraordinary and transformative gift. As the international nexus for artists of African descent, the Studio Museum is honoured and humbled...
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The Studio Museum in Harlem receives extraordinary endowment gift from MacKenzie Scott
'Never Cross the Same River Twice', curated by French-Togolese independent curator Kisito Assangni and Greek-British curator Ariana Kalliga, is a time-shifting survey of performances converging between video, film and installation. Initiated as a travelling research project in 2020, the exhibition connects two borders that unfold in tandem, tracing the recent video practices of 11 international artists selected by Assangni...
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'Never Cross The Same River Twice' at space52
This mid-career survey of Julie Mehretu (b. 1970; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), co-organized by the Whitney and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), covers over two decades of the artist’s career and presents the most comprehensive overview of her practice to date. Featuring approximately forty works on paper and more than thirty paintings dating from 1996 to today,...
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Julie Mehretu mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art
The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech has the pleasure to announce 'Outsiders/Insiders?: Artists of Essaouira from the Fondation Alliances and Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober Collections', a group exhibition open to the public from 11 March to 25 July 2021. This exhibition presents a vast selection of artworks by the singular artists of Essaouira,...
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'Outsiders/Insiders?' at the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL)
The call for applications opens today for the first Biennale College Arte, which will begin with a workshop to be held this autumn 2021. The goal is to complement the International Art Exhibition with a workshop for advanced training, research and experimentation to develop and produce projects by emerging artists ages 30 and under from all over the world.The international call for the Biennale College Arte will remain...
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Open Call: First Biennale College Arte for emerging young artists under 30
Calling all photographers! Exhibit your work at this year's Vantage Point Sharjah Sharjah Art Foundation welcomes submissions for Vantage Point Sharjah 9 (VPS9), an annual initiative dedicated to the practice of photography. Both local and international photographers are invited to apply. Applicants are free to choose their own theme and artistic approach that falls under one of the following categories:...
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Open Call: Vantage Point Sharjah 9
The Bag Factory has announced their 30th-anniversary exhibition, 'Bag Factory 30 Years: So Far, The Future', presented in partnership with the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) Gallery, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. The Bag Factory is celebrating three decades of its history and legacy as a non-profit contemporary visual arts organisation by looking through its archives and highlighting...
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'Bag Factory 30 Years: So Far, The Future' at FADA Gallery
'Enfance volée' is the artist‘s first-ever solo exhibition and deals with issues of forced child labour and education as a basic human right Sakhile&Me is pleased to present 'Enfance volée' (“Stolen Childhood”), the first solo exhibition of Cameroonian artist Tagne William Njepe. The show is centred around the artist’s ongoing series of works by the same name, which he started...
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Tagne William Njepe's 'Enfance volée' at Sakhile&Me

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Suzette Bell-Roberts, co-founder and publisher of ART AFRICA presents her top picks for the online edition of ART X Lagos. ART X Lagos is West Africa’s premier international art fair, designed to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary and modern art from the African continent and its Diaspora. Bob-Nosa Uwagboe, Boy in Detention, 2020. Acrylic and spray paint on textured canvas,...
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ART AFRICA presents their top 7 picks from ART X Lagos 2020
Aspire Art Auctions collaborated with the Photography Legacy Project (PLP) to present the first-ever dedicated auction of African photography. Bob Gosani, Mandela Boxing, 1957. Featuring an impressive collection of 126 works by 56 photographers from across the continent (including Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe), the auction opened for online bidding on 21 October and concluded on...
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First ever African Photography Auction delivers a good punch with new records
NORTH/SOUTH Live and Virtual Auction will be taking place 8-11 November 2020 Irma Stern, Swazi Girl. Oil on canvas laid down on board, 51,5 x 39cm. Estimate: R 3 000 000 - 4 000 000. From the Tasso Foundation Collection of Important South African Art assembled by the Late Giulio Bertrand of Morgenster Estate. Luxury and collectability is a hallmark of...
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Irma Stern marine landscape leads Strauss & Co’s offering of rare and high-value lots
The ASPIRE X PLP African Photography Auction is currently open for online bidding online until 5 November. In support of the Photography Legacy Project (PLP), Aspire Art Auctions presents a special auction of photographic works by some of the most notable South African photographers and their pan-African counterparts.In this first-ever African photography auction on the continent, a dynamic collection of ...
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The Photography Legacy Project in partnership with ASPIRE ART AUCTIONS
Globally, sturdy results at art auctions over the past two quarters indicate a healthy market that is holding steady in challenging times. These results reveal that art trading has continued successfully, which bodes well for the future of the art market. This spring, Aspire returns to Johannesburg with a much-anticipated auction of Modern and Contemporary art taking place on...
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Treasures & Trailblazers: Aspire Art Auctions sets the stage for exciting sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg
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, to take place in Paris on Wednesday, 24 June.The debut of an African based auction house presenting a dedicated sale in Europe marks an industry...
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Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris
Abstractly Ours: Amel Bennys & Osi Audu While African figuration continues to dominate the headlines of contemporary art on the continent, much remains to be said about the depth of tradition and history of abstraction on the continent. Philosophically nuanced and culturally complex abstraction gives each one of us the agency to interpret and reflect personally and intimately on and...
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Masters we need to master
The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today Pitika Ntuli with one of his monumental sculptures, Madiba and the Rainbow Children, 2016. Carved out of wood. Photographer: Refilwe Modise “I started as a traditional healer, and that...
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Pitika Ntuli
Aspire X Piasa excels with unprecedented offering while accessing new global markets The landmark Aspire X Piasa Auction: Modern & Contemporary African Art, took place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. With a curated collection of 198 artworks, the large-scale Africa-focused auction offered collectors a diversity of works (painting, photography sculpture and mixed-media) by artists from...
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