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We know that African masks inspired Picasso, that African sculpture inspired Brancusi, that African people inspired a whole slew of Western designers, artists, musicians, writers and so on.
MoCADA was founded in 1999 by Laurie Cumbo in a building owned by the historical Bridge Street AWME Church in the heart of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.. In 2006, MoCADA moved to its current home, an expanded space at 80 Hanson Place, at South Portland Avenue, in Fort Greene, a historically black middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn which is home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) arts ...
Ethan Cohen (born January 5, 1961) is an American collector and art dealer based in New York City who specialises in contemporary Chinese art and contemporary African art. [1] He was one of the first western dealers to sell work by contemporary Japanese and Chinese artists including Ushio Shinohara and Ai Weiwei. He has been called "one of the ...
The Africa Center, formerly known as the Museum for African Art and before that as the Center for African Art, is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile.
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, New York. Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, Museum for African Art, New York (14 November 2003 – 1 March 2004); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (27 March–18 July 2004); Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (12 September–28 November 2004); Museu ...
1:54 is an annual contemporary African art fair held in London during the October Frieze Week since 2013. It was organized to improve the representation of contemporary African art in worldwide exhibitions, and is the foremost art fair dedicated to contemporary African art in the primary art market. By 2016, the show had become three times the ...
Neuberger Museum of Art. The Neuberger Museum of Art (the NEU) is located at the centre of the Purchase College campus in Purchase, New York.With a collection of nearly 7,000 works of modern, contemporary and African art, it is one of the nation's largest academic museums.
Serge Attukwei Clottey (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist who works across installation, performance, photography and sculpture. [1] He is the creator of Afrogallonism, an artistic concept, which he describes as 'an artistic concept to explore the relationship between the prevalence of the yellow oil gallons in to consumption and necessity in the life of the modern African.' [2] As the founder ...