At 1-54 London, African Modernism Gets a Dedicated Section
It is the 14th edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which runs at Somerset House from 15 to 18 October, and this year its modernist spotlight features familiar names: Gerard Sekoto, Skunder Boghossian, Papa Ibra Tall and Ibrahim El-Salahi, among others. This is not the first time 1-54 has featured modernist African artists, but […]
At MoMA, a New Exhibition Celebrates West Africa’s Modernist Architectural Legacy
In 1960, 17 African countries gained independence in what became known as the “Year of Africa.” For many of these newly sovereign nations, political freedom was only the beginning. They were confronted with what an independent African nation actually looked like, a question that stretched beyond governance and infrastructure into the continent’s creative life: art, […]