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African Christian art

Academics and other researchers have been invited to submit abstracts for papers on African Christian art for presentation at the 16th Triennial Symposium of African Art – African Christian Art. A panel titled African Christian Arts: New Fields Opening (Convener: Dr Nicholas J Bridger, Department of Art, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA) will be organised as part of the  the Kevin Carroll Conference on African Christian Art, with...

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Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga: Transformation
Aug05

Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga: Transformation

A new exhibition of works by Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga opens in London 12 September 2013, the first solo show by the Kenya-born artist in the British capital. The works in the October Gallery London exhibition 12 September – 26 October 2013 are predominantly wall-hanging sculptures created from tin cans, steel wire and oxidised sheet metal forms. While the techniques Gakunga uses are common to the fibre arts across many traditions,...

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Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist
Jul03

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (3 July–22 September 2013) is, for Tate Modern, a ground-breaking event and for El-Salahi, a retrospective that brings together work over five decades. This first major exhibition of the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi in the UK brings together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in...

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Artists and Art Education in Africa

Artists and Art Education in Africa (ISBN 9781872843193), edited by Elsbeth Court and part of Saffron African Art and Society Series, documents an extraordinary symposium of 130 visual art specialists from twenty countries, mostly scholar-practitioners, who debated about art, African art and art education in Africa at the peak of the africa95 season in London. The collected texts indicate a variety of conditions which, in turn,...

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africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
Dec28

africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi

The artist El Anatsui, featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report and publisher of the first book on the artist’s work (El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa | Buy this book) at the opening of his exhibition at the October Gallery, London, in August 2005. Below are edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. What has happened since africa95 in the world of...

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