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A consultant for museums and cultural destinations around the world, Blankenberg brings rich experience finding innovative ways to connect cultural resources to new audiences and a deep commitment to co-reimagining the museums of the future.Blankenberg, a member of the African diaspora, has a proven track record in the systemic transformation of museums and cultural spaces to become more inclusive...
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Ngaire Blankenberg appointed as director of Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art
Investec Cape Town Art Fair is thrilled to announce its very first digital event and online viewing rooms taking place from 17-19 September 2021 (Preview days 15-16 September by invitation only). Running in parallel with our sister fair in Milan; miart international modern and contemporary art fair, this event provides a unique opportunity whereby VIPs, galleries and visitors will have access to a much broader audience across two continents and...
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Investec Cape Town Art Fair announces Digital Event 2021
The exhibition features artworks created over the last two years by their OG Youth Collective, their Beacon School partners and the wider education community This exhibition features the October Galleries major lockdown art project 10x10, a huge hanging sculpture, which was made by many hands over the past year and is inspired by the work of El Anatsui. Each square has...
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'Apart Together' at October Gallery Education, London, UK
The consideration of diverse elements, stories and forms that make up the human experience is at the core of this exhibition. How do we create portraits of complex lives situated against a shrinking and dynamic landscape? From layered explorations of the relationship between the city and the individual to intimate explorations of pleasure, the exhibition is concerned with representations...
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'Making Face' at Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
Affinity Art Gallery presents 'A Vernacular Homage to Architecture and Design' a collaboration with Undiscovered Canvas, a boutique art agency based on the French Riviera, featuring sculptural work by Nigerian artist Adams Anne alongside paintings by South African artist Lulama ‘Wolf’ Mlambo.'A Vernacular Homage to Architecture and Design' highlights the importance of tradition, heritage, design and sustainability. The exhibition...
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'A Vernacular Homage to Architecture and Design' at Affinity Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
After L'Interstices' inaugural exhibition in June, featuring the Franco-American photographer Guillaume Zuili, their new exhibition showcases a different continent imaginary: a young female photographer born in South Africa and working in Johannesburg.The 'Plastic Crowns' exhibition is part of L'Interstice's desire to present a program to enhance the diversity of the chosen photographers' practices and their cultural origins. It was...
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Phumzile Khanyiles' 'Plastic Crowns' at L’Interstice, Arles
As part of the Africa Season 2020, Angola-based freelance curators Suzana Sousa and Odile Burluraux, curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), have chosen for exhibition at MAM a group of works by sixteen women artists from various English – and Portuguese – speaking African countries or the diaspora. The result is an insight into an African...
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'The Power of My Hands: Africa(s) Women Artists' at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France
The META foundation and August House, in collaboration with the Association for Visual Arts, Nel Gallery, WORLDART, Alliance Francaise du Cap and Eclectica Contemporary present The August House//Cape Town Collab is an exploration of art institutions and their role in our communities. The project takes a historical approach but is firmly rooted in contemporary practice. Through this collaboration, they wish...
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The META foundation presents the August House//Cape Town Collab
Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival are pleased to announce that a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Nigeria) will be unveiled at Edinburgh’s Burns Monument on 29 July 2021. The new public artwork, co-commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival, is a response to the ongoing theatre surrounding the UK’s departure from...
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Emeka Ogboh to unveil new sound installation in Edinburgh, Scotland

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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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