Maputo’s Modernist Moment

Folded concrete church with angular roof forms against blue sky. Igreja de Santo António de Polana, modernist architecture in Maputo, Mozambique, designed by Nuno Craveiro Lopes, 1962.

Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, in the city then called Lourenço Marques, a generation of architects produced a body of work

Best of Art 2025

Best of Art 2025 4. Alexis Galleries at ART X Lagos 2025

For decades, African art occupied a provisional space in global institutions—collected but rarely centered, exhibited but seldom historicized on its own