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africanews.com
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Art as dialogue: Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia at the Lyon Biennale
The Biennale of Contemporary Art in the French city of Lyon is one of the most important international events for the art scene. Part of this year's edition is "Ontology of project...
egyptianstreets.com
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African Art Takes Centre Stage at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
On 28 July 2026, Abu Dhabi announced that the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi would open its doors on 11 December. Twenty years after Frank Gehry first conceived it, the museum will open on S...
vmsd.com
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Wolf-Gordon Achimwi Collection
The collection explores culture, land and legacy through beadwork, cartography, painting, dance and music.
fashionbombdaily.com
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Noirci Studio Is the Black-Owned Online Shop Making African American Wall Art Prints Collectible
Noirci Studio is a Black-owned online shop and art marketplace where you can buy African American wall art prints, archival canvas pieces made from original paintings by Black arti...
allafrica.com
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Africa: Africa's Fashion Value Lies In The Stories Only Africans Can Tell
[Bird Story Agency] South African designer Wanda Lephoto argues that Africa's competitive advantage in fashion is not only its fibre or factories, but the cultural knowledge, inher...
africanews.com
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Akinbode Akinbiyi turns everyday african life into art
At 80, Nigerian-born photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi continues to document the changing face of Africa and its global diaspora through a quiet, deeply personal approach to photograp...
africanews.com
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African-American artist’s work celebrated in travelling retrospective
Kerry James Marshall's arguably done more than any living artist to bring black figures into Western galleries
design-milk.com
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Wangari Mathenge Reassembles Memory in ‘Re-membering’
The Kenyan artist expands her ongoing investigation of cultural memory and inheritance with five new paintings and her first publicly exhibited sculptures
artistsnetwork.com
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Studio Snapshot: Nicolas Africano
Step inside the studio of master figure sculptor Nicolas Africano, a former Illinois orphanage into a private sanctuary for glass casting. The post Studio Snapshot: Nicolas African...
thisiscolossal.com
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Monumental Sculptures by Sharif Bey Meditate on Identity and Objecthood in ‘Homecoming’
Calm yet imposing figures evoke the Benin Bronzes, ceremonial masking traditions, and the Moai stones of Easter Island. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Col...
allafrica.com
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South Africa: Artists Tell Stories of Heritage and Migration Using Surprising Materials
[GroundUp] Matereality V2 opens at the Iziko South African National Gallery on Monday
africanews.com
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In Ghana, larger-than-life coffins tell the stories of the dead
In Ghana, particularly among Ga communities around the capital, "figurative" or "fantasy" coffins, as they're known, offer fantastical, yet intimate, send-offs. Fishermen are burie...
toysrevil.blogspot.com
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Sarimanok by Charles Luminary
ART SUBMISSION: With the legendary "Sarimanok" hitting the big screen this week in DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island', Charles Luminary (of Luminary Studios) also made a phys...
blackenterprise.com
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‘Casa Mouda’ Brings Contemporary African Designs To New Lagos Creative Studio
The studio plans to produce, promote, and exhibit contemporary design while connecting Lagos’ creative community with audiences beyond the region.
allafrica.com
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Africa: Loza Maléombho Is Building An Industry From African Stories
[Bird Story Agency] Internationally recognised after Beyoncé wore her designs, Ivorian designer Loza Maléombho is now looking beyond fashion. Through Pokou, she is combining Baoulé...
nybooks.com
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A Delicate Repair
The late Nigerian sculptor Erhabor Emokpae is perhaps best known for his bronze replica of the sixteenth-century ivory mask of Queen Idia, the kingdom of Benin’s premier iyoba, or...
thisiscolossal.com
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Step Inside the Studios of 20 Contemporary Black Artists in ‘Another View’
Featuring Nick Cave, Nina Chanel Abney, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Kerry James Marshall, and many more. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal...
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