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Center for African Art Museum for African Art: Established: September 1984 () Location: 1280 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029 U.S. Coordinates: Public transit access: New York City Subway: 110th Street Central Park North–110th Street; New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M106 buses: Website
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 ...
The National Museum of African Art was the first institution dedicated to African art in the United States, [6] followed by the New York-based Center for African Art (now The African Center) in 1984. [25] The National Museum's collection is more extensive. As of 2008, it consisted of 9,000 objects and 300,000 photographs.
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.
Jack Shainman Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City. The gallery was founded by Jack Shainman and his then-partner Claude Simard (1956—2014) in 1984 in Washington, D.C. The gallery has a focus on artists from Africa , East Asia , and North America .
Skarstedt Fine Art (Per Skarstedt), New York since 1994, London since 2012 [12] [13] Von Lintel Gallery, Munich 1993, New York since 1999, Los Angeles since 2014 [14] David Zwirner Gallery, New York since 1993, London since 2012, Hong Kong since 2017, Paris since 2019 [15] [16]
Weusi Artist Collective is an organization of African-American artists, established in 1965, based in the Harlem section of New York City. [1] [2] Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, the members of the Weusi Artist Collective create art invoking African themes and symbols. The organization was a major driving force behind the development ...
1:54 is a contemporary African art fair held annually in London, beginning in 2013. [1] As of 2015, 1:54 is the only art fair dedicated to contemporary African art in the primary art market. [2] Its name refers to the 54 countries that compose the African continent, [1] expressed as a ratio ("one continent: 54 countries"). [3]