Tag: African Art History
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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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Didier Claes on Curating “Africa Legacy,” One of the Year’s Most Ambitious African Art Exhibitions
For more than three decades, Belgian-Congolese collector and dealer Didier Claes has been one of the leading voices in the field of classical African art. With “Africa Legacy: The Cradle of Art”, he embarks on what is arguably the most ambitious project of his career: an exhibition bringing together nearly 280 works spanning more than…
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In Dakar, Carole Diop Maps a City’s Art and Past
Carole Diop, an architect and cultural advocate, sat down with Dakartnews to discuss “Dakar, Metamorphosis of a Capital”, a book published in late 2024 and co-authored with Xavier Ricou. This work explores how Dakar, Senegal’s capital and once a key center of French West Africa, has grown and changed through its urban and architectural shifts,…
