African art

Brooklyn's African Art Hire Stirs Controversy – Earlier this week, the Brooklyn Museum raised eyebrows when it announced its new hires for positions in its African art and photography departments, both of whom are white. Some say the museum should have searched harder for a curator of color to fill the ...

This week, the Brooklyn Museum appointed two new curators. Kristen Windmuller-Luna was appointed the Sills Family Consulting Curator of African Art, and Drew Sawyer was appointed the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Curator of Photography. As soon as the news hit social media, the choices ...

The Brooklyn Museum on Monday named a white woman as the incoming curator of African art, promptly sparking criticism from people who said the position should have gone to a person of color. Kristen Windmuller-Luna is slated to take over managing the museum's African art collection in April, the ...

The Brooklyn Museum has a new African art curator, and many are not happy with the new hire. The museum announced on Monday that it had appointed Kristen Windmuller-Luna to manage the museum's African art collections. She is a white woman. According to the Huffington Post, “most critics of the ...

People Want To Know Why Brooklyn Museum's New African Art Curator Is White ... The Brooklyn Museum hired a white curator for its African art exhibits. ... it had appointed two new curators: Drew Sawyer for photography, and Kristen Windmuller-Luna, who will manage the museum's African art collections.

Modern and contemporary African art is making its presence felt at the 2018 edition of Art Dubai. Galleries from the continent have increased by 50% since last year, rising from six to nine, and the number of African artists exhibiting has grown by 17%. Although these figures may not represent huge leaps, ...

Two years after the Armory Show's Focus section offered a cross section of African galleries (the geographic frame was abandoned thereafter), dealers and young artists from South Africa, already in the spotlight with the opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, have made a particularly ...

IN ANTICIPATION OF THE SPRING 2018 SALES at major auction houses in London this month, Culture Type is taking a look back at recent results at Sotheby's. One of the benefits of observing auctions is the opportunity see works long held in private hands away from public view. The November 2017 ...

Museums in France and around Europe that hold African art are now reconsidering their collections. Many people are questioning if some of the objects were stolen or taken unfairly from countries that were former European colonies. Restitution claims are not new. But now, President Emmanuel Macron is ...

"The question is to give back what has been stolen during the worst conditions of war," said Marie-Cecile Zinsou, daughter of Benin's former prime minister and president of the Zinsou Foundation, an organization in the main city, Cotonou, that promotes African art. "It's very small for France, but for us it's ...

“The portrait of Tutu is a national icon in Nigeria, and of huge cultural significance,” said Giles Peppiatt, Bonham's director of modern african art. Peppiatt uncovered the work after a family in north London contacted him following recent lucrative sales of Nigerian artworks at auction. He said the family had ...

A year after the Thomas Heatherwick-designed Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art opened in Cape Town, South Africa—becoming the first major museum of its kind on the continent—a smaller, private art institution, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), opened last week ...

“What [Carter] does, what we do at the National Museum of African Art, is not just about helping us to fill a void in a wider knowledge,” Casely-Hayford says. “It is helping to right the wrong of wider formal education and culture that so often forgets or diminishes the contribution of Africa. And both submerge us ...

The Brooklyn Museum in New York has appointed Kirsten Windmuller-Luna and Drew Sawyer as curators. They will begin in their positions at the museum in April. Windmuller-Luna has been named the Sills Family Consulting Curator of the museum's African art department. She was most recently a ...

The contemporary African art fair 1-54 made its African debut in Marrakech, Morocco, in the Grand Salon of the ritzy La Mamounia, one of Winston Churchill's favorite hotels. Held over the weekend, 1-54 welcomed 4,000 visitors to view the offerings of 17 international galleries, which exhibited more than 60 ...