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July 22, 2011
There's an explosion of African art in the city. Check out some of the best.
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by Valerie Gladstone onJuly 21, 2011
The city's art scene is getting a lot blacker.
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December 13, 2010
The Ghanaian photographer captured the proud images of newly independent Africans in the motherland -- and later in England.
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November 22, 2010
One hundred artists of African-American descent contributed their work to the Global Africa Project, a vast exhibition in New York City that will run until May 15, 2011. Contributing Editor Harriette Cole attended the grand opening and spoke to some of the artists.
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October 13, 2010
Europeans embraced traditional African art early, but they have been cool to modern-day creations. An unprecedented auction of art from the African Diaspora in Paris on Oct. 24 could change minds -- and raise prices.
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by Natalie Hopkinson onNovember 17, 2009
Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black.
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November 17, 2009
At his mid-career retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, the London-born, Lagos-raised Yinka Shonibare MBE plays both sides of the colonial coin.
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