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  2. Contemporary African art - Wikipedia

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    One example is Marshall W. Mount, [7] who proposed four categories: first, "survivals of traditional styles", which show continuities in traditional working material and methods such as bronze casting or wood carving; secondly, art inspired by Christian missions; thirdly, souvenir art in the sense of tourist or "airport art", such as by the likes of artworks by South African visual artist ...

  3. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa can be seen on the left with the Radisson Red Hotel on the right. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a public non-profit museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Zeitz MOCAA opened on September 22, 2017 [1] as the largest museum of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. [2]

  4. African design - Wikipedia

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    Africa's many diverse countries are sources of vibrant design with African design influences visible in historical and contemporary art and culture around the world. The study of African design is still limited, particularly from the viewpoint of Africans, and the opportunity to expand its current definition by exploring African visual ...

  5. Dakar Biennale - Wikipedia

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    Dak'Art 2002 was characterized by new staff and new partners. Dak'Art 2004 received more international visitors and wider press coverage; during the opening the president announced his intention to organise a new edition of the World Festival of Black Arts. For the first time an artistic director was appointed for Dak'Art 2006 and the event was ...

  6. African art in Western collections - Wikipedia

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    The Benin artist Meschac Gaba's 2013 installation "Museum of Contemporary African Art" at Tate Modern responded to the fact that there was to date no museum of contemporary African art. [28] In September, 2017, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened in Cape Town, South Africa. [29] Traditional African religion portal; Africa portal

  7. Arts by region - Wikipedia

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    Art. African art reflects the diversity of African cultures. The oldest existing art from Africa are 6,000-year-old carvings found in Niger, while the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the world's tallest architectural accomplishment for 4,000 years until the creation of the Eiffel Tower.

  8. Art biennials in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Art biennials in Africa are important exponents of the increasing internationalization of contemporary African artists. 18 But one of the pitfalls of this kind of event is the risk of becoming an exotic storefront for Western art critics and curators. 19 Therefore, a real curatorial work has to be done to escape the submission to Western diktat.

  9. Iziko South African National Gallery - Wikipedia

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    This occasion was the inaugural meeting of the South African Fine Arts Association, founded by Thomas Butterworth Bayley and Abraham de Schmidt. [2] The Association went on to arrange the first ever exhibition of fine art in South Africa. This took place on 10 May 1851 in the school rooms in the Company's Garden in Cape Town.