Guide
History of African art
African art from the 73,000-year-old Blombos drawing to Nok, Ife and Benin, masks and textiles, modernist schools and today's artists: a short, linked history.
Guides
Start with a short history of African art, from the oldest engravings in the world to today's biennales, and with contemporary African art for the artists and institutions shaping it now.
The other guides are practical and sourced, for collectors, travellers and anyone starting to explore art from Africa: what to check before buying a work, which fairs and biennales set the agenda, which museums to visit on and off the continent, and the women artists whose work every reader should know.
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Contemporary African art
What contemporary African art is, the exhibitions and curators that put it on the world stage, the artists to know, and the museums and fairs that show it.
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African women artists
Fourteen women artists from Africa who shaped modern and contemporary art, from Baya, Ladi Kwali and Inji Efflatoun to Wangechi Mutu and Zanele Muholi.
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How to buy African art
A practical guide to buying African art: contemporary versus historical works, where to buy, documents to ask for, how fakes work and export rules.
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African art fairs and biennales
The main fairs and biennales for contemporary African art: Dak'Art, the Rencontres de Bamako, 1-54, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, FNB Art Joburg and ART X Lagos.
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Where to see African art
Museums for modern, contemporary and historical African art — from Zeitz MOCAA and the Museum of Black Civilisations to the Smithsonian and Tervuren.
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The Bang-Bang Club
South Africa · 1990–1994
The Bang-Bang Club, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek, Greg Marinovich and João Silva, photographed South Africa's township war of 1990–94. Their story, its cost.