On May 8, 2018, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington will present World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean. Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Swahili coast has been a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence for over one millennium. For centuries, peoples from the Arabian […]
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From June 21, 2017 to June 24, 2018, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art will present Invocations by Kenyan artist Jim Chuchu. The museum is the first institution to acquire and display the artist’s mesmerizing suite of video projections, Invocation: The Severance of Ties (2015) and Invocation: Release (2015). Curated by Karen E. Milbourne, the […]
On May 16, 2017, Sotheby’s inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art realised a total of £2,794,750 in London, a new benchmark for an auction in this category. In addition, a new record was set for the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, when Crash Willy, from 2009, sold for £224,750. In 2010, this work was the […]
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