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  • NAMLA (Nader Art Museum Latin America) celebrates Wifredo Lam in New York

    Public exhibition from November 11 through November 21 at Gary Nader NY, 24 West 57th Street, New York City. This show will include works from the Nader Art Museum Latin America (NAMLA) as well as Several Prestigious Private Collections Nader Art Museum Latin America and Gary Nader NY are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition […]…

  • Reflections on a “Festival for the World” and Alpha Diagne’s “Blue House” at the Southbank in London

    Reflections on a “Festival for the World” and Alpha Diagne’s “Blue House” at the Southbank in London

    For the past four years the Southbank Centre in London has hosted an event called “Africa Utopia.” Typically, this diverse programme of talks, marketplace activities, displays, fashion shows and other artistic happenings takes place over the course of a weekend in early autumn and is marketed as one of the Southbank’s “Festivals for the World” series. The artistic and…

  • Zak Ové’s Triumph at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2016)

    Zak Ové’s Triumph at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London (2016)

    The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair presented its fourth consecutive edition at Somerset House in London (6-9 October 2016) – organised by the Fair’s founding director, Moroccan-born entrepreneur and art enthusiast Touria El Glaoui. Expanding in size and scale by an increase of 40% since its inaugural edition in 2013, this year’s 1:54 showcased works by more than 130 artists from…

  • Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions – Jo’burg Conference, 17-19 November 2016

    Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions – Jo’burg Conference, 17-19 November 2016

    “BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures” is the seventh conference in a series of transnational and diasporic conversations about imaging the black body. It offers a forum that gives artists, activists, educators and scholars from around the world an opportunity to share ideas, from historical topics to current research on the 40th anniversary of…

  • Creating African Fashion Histories – Conference at The Old Courtroom, Brighton, UK (November 2016)

    Creating African Fashion Histories – Conference at The Old Courtroom, Brighton, UK (November 2016)

    On Wednesday 2 November 2016 Brighton Museum and Art Gallery will be hosting a one-day conference – “Creating African Fashion Histories” – in partnership with the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Sussex Africa Centre, the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. Coinciding with the first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion –…