Tag: BLack Art
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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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‘Paris Noir’: 300 Works Stir Black Pride
From March 19 to June 30, 2025, Paris pulses with a celebration of African and diasporic artistry, and nowhere is this more evident than at the Centre Pompidou. On its futuristic facade, Gérard Sokoto’s piercing self-portrait announces Paris Noir, a groundbreaking exhibition on the 6th floor that marks the Centre’s final showcase before a five-year…
Bridging Africa and The World Through Contemporary Art 