But here at Tate Modern, her focus is African Modernism and Afro-Surrealism - movements she says are rarely spotlighted in ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...

As the era of European colonial rule in Africa came to an end during the 1950s and 60s, African artists in newly independent countries across the continent grappled with the question of how to make ...

Contemporary African Art finds itself in a unique point in history. The continent having recovered from imperialism just over five decades ago (for many of the African countries), grapples with how ...

The dominant trend in global contemporary art over the past five to ten years has been a foregrounding of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. Leading institutions and collectors worldwide ...

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New genres : inventing African popular culture -- Africans photographed, African photographers -- Transforming the workshop -- Patrons and mediators -- Art and commodity -- The African artist : ...

London – Major works by Ben Enwonwu, Gerard Sekoto and Alexander 'Skunder' Boghossian are among highlights of the Modern & Contemporary African Art sale at Bonhams New Bond Street, London on 20 March ...