Tag: African Art Collectors
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O’segun Paul Andrew on What It Takes for African Art to Operate at Global Scale
The difficulties African artists and cultural professionals face when trying to move internationally are often treated as isolated problems. But they point to a broader question: what would it take to build an African art market capable of operating at global scale? Nigerian art patron and collector O’segun Paul Andrew argues that the answer lies…
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Hannah O’Leary on a Decade of Transformation in the African Art Market — and What Still Lies Ahead
Over the past decade, the market for modern and contemporary African art has undergone a remarkable transformation. Auction records have multiplied, international museums have expanded their acquisitions, and African artists have gained unprecedented visibility on the global stage. Yet behind the headlines lie more fundamental questions: How is value actually created? Who shapes an artist’s…
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She Helped Build Senegal’s First Private Museum of Contemporary Art. Today, CCH Pounder Collects “for the Future”
Long before contemporary African art became one of the fastest-growing segments of the global art market, CCH Pounder was collecting the artists she believed would one day define its history. Together with her late husband, the Senegalese anthropologist Boubacar Koné, she founded the Musée Boribana in Dakar (1992), the country’s first museum dedicated to contemporary…
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Why Africa Still Inspires Ethan Cohen, the New York Gallerist Driven by Curiosity
He has been called one of the most influential art dealers in the world. But when you sit down with Ethan Cohen, the first thing you notice is not the reputation. It’s the energy. The questions he asks. The way he leans in when he talks about an artist he loves. The New York gallerist,…
