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1 Asia Clarke_Landscape_Courtesy of Photographer Albert Chime and artist Asia Clarke Asia Clarke Brings Sculptural Portraits of Afro-Caribbean Resistance Figures to London

2 ReParis-Prize Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

3 Kelebogile Marope Becomes the First Motswana Artist to Win the FNB Art Prize

4 At the Interstice by TAELON7 at the Foundation for Contemporary Art Ghana, Accra. © Juergen Benson-Strohmayer TAELON7 Turns the Threshold of FCA Ghana into a Provisional Civic Interior

5 Open Studio Returns to Kampala, Building an Art Space Beyond the Gallery

Asia Clarke_Landscape_Courtesy of Photographer Albert Chime and artist Asia Clarke
  • Art
  • Exhibition

Asia Clarke Brings Sculptural Portraits of Afro-Caribbean Resistance Figures to London

August 22, 2026
ReParis-Prize
  • Architecture
  • Pan-African Biennale

Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

August 19, 2026
Kelebogile Marope Becomes the First Motswana Artist to Win the FNB Art Prize
  • Art

Kelebogile Marope Becomes the First Motswana Artist to Win the FNB Art Prize

August 18, 2026

Cultural Intelligence

Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision
Architecture Cultural Intelligence

Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision

July 27, 2026
African Artists Command Art Basel 2026
Art Art Basel Cultural Intelligence

African Artists Command Art Basel 2026

June 27, 2026
1-54 New York 2026: The Fair That Reveals Africa’s Expanding Place in the Global Art Economy
Cultural Intelligence

1-54 New York 2026: The Fair That Reveals Africa’s Expanding Place in the Global Art Economy

June 1, 2026
What Frieze New York Revealed About the Infrastructure Behind African Art’s Market Value
Art Cultural Intelligence

What Frieze New York Revealed About the Infrastructure Behind African Art’s Market Value

May 14, 2026
Art Dubai at 20: A Global Platform Still Light on African Representation
Art Cultural Intelligence

Art Dubai at 20: A Global Platform Still Light on African Representation

April 15, 2026
What to Expect at the 2026 1-54 Marrakech
Art Cultural Intelligence

What to Expect at the 2026 1-54 Marrakech

February 2, 2026

Pan-African Biennale 2026

Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

August 19, 2026
What to Expect at the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi: Five Days of Architecture, Memory and African Futures

What to Expect at the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi: Five Days of Architecture, Memory and African Futures

August 9, 2026
From Algeria to Zimbabwe: Meet the Spatial Practices Shaping the First-Ever Pan-African Biennale

From Algeria to Zimbabwe: Meet the Spatial Practices Shaping the First-Ever Pan-African Biennale

June 2, 2026

Featured Interviews

Nyugen E. Smith on Stranger Faces, Memory, Return and Rethinking Restitution

August 3, 2026
STRANGER FACES 12 (After Serpell), 2026 Charcoal, gesso, graphite powder, Zambian soil, pastel, and collage on paper. 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Between Ritual and Resonance: Rana El Nemr on The Sugarcane Choir, Material Memory, and Listening Beyond the Visible at the Venice Biennale 2026

July 1, 2026

From the Census to the Senses: Carina Tenewaa Kanbi on Reframing African Cities Through the Atlas of Uncertainty

June 22, 2026

Architecture & Design

Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale
Architecture Pan-African Biennale

Van Alen Institute revives Paris Prize as Re:Paris Prize at inaugural Pan-African Biennale

August 19, 2026
TAELON7 Turns the Threshold of FCA Ghana into a Provisional Civic Interior
Architecture Exhibition

TAELON7 Turns the Threshold of FCA Ghana into a Provisional Civic Interior

August 17, 2026
David Adjaye Reimagines Kigali’s Historic 1930 Prison Site as Mater Misericordiae Cathedral
Architecture

David Adjaye Reimagines Kigali’s Historic 1930 Prison Site as Mater Misericordiae Cathedral

August 10, 2026
What to Expect at the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi: Five Days of Architecture, Memory and African Futures
Architecture Pan-African Biennale

What to Expect at the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi: Five Days of Architecture, Memory and African Futures

August 9, 2026
In Senegal, Fatiya Diene Mazza Designs Sangalkam Institute as a Living Classroom Near Dakar
Architecture

In Senegal, Fatiya Diene Mazza Designs Sangalkam Institute as a Living Classroom Near Dakar

August 3, 2026
Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision
Architecture Cultural Intelligence

Africa Is Finally Designing the Stadiums That Will Welcome the World: The African Architects Behind Morocco’s 2030 FIFA World Cup Vision

July 27, 2026

Africans to Watch

Meet Elvira Dyangani Ose: Zeitz MOCAA’s New Artistic Director and the Task Ahead

Meet Elvira Dyangani Ose: Zeitz MOCAA’s New Artistic Director and the Task Ahead

Africans at Venice Biennale 2026: Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmangankato Helen Sebidi – The Artist of the Seen and Unseen

Africans at Venice Biennale 2026: Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmangankato Helen Sebidi – The Artist of the Seen and Unseen

Africans at Venice Biennale 2026: Issa Samb — The Artist Whose Practice Refused to End

Africans at Venice Biennale 2026: Issa Samb — The Artist Whose Practice Refused to End

Art

Asia Clarke Brings Sculptural Portraits of Afro-Caribbean Resistance Figures to London

August 22, 2026
Asia Clarke_Landscape_Courtesy of Photographer Albert Chime and artist Asia Clarke

Kelebogile Marope Becomes the First Motswana Artist to Win the FNB Art Prize

August 18, 2026

Meet Elvira Dyangani Ose: Zeitz MOCAA’s New Artistic Director and the Task Ahead

August 14, 2026

After Venice, Tesfaye Urgessa Joins White Cube as His International Profile Expands

August 7, 2026

Nyugen E. Smith on Stranger Faces, Memory, Return and Rethinking Restitution

August 3, 2026
STRANGER FACES 12 (After Serpell), 2026 Charcoal, gesso, graphite powder, Zambian soil, pastel, and collage on paper. 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Nairobi’s Art Auction East Africa Turns Its Focus to the Region’s Modernist Legacy

July 27, 2026
Gerhard Botha Lowveld Landscape

Rankings

50 INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN CURATORS IN 2025

50 INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN CURATORS IN 2025

50 Influential African Women Architects (2025 Edition)

50 Influential African Women Architects (2025 Edition)

20 African Furniture Designers Shaping African Design

20 African Furniture Designers Shaping African Design

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