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  • Pieter Hugo – Photography Blog

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  • Congolese Plantation Workers Are Making a Living Selling Chocolate Sculptures to the Art World

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  • Gabi Ngcobo Will Curate the 10th Berlin Biennale

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  • Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng to represent South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017

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  • Kader Attia wins the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp

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  • Inaugural African Art Awards go to Yinka Shonibare MBE, Ato Malinda and the Ford Foundation

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  • ImpACT Award for Visual Art 2016: Khehla Chepape Makgato

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  • Kemang Wa Lehulere: Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2017

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  • Contemporary African art to take centre stage at Fondation Louis Vuitton

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  • Mohau Modisakeng: Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year 2016

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Exhibitions

  • We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85

    April 21, 2017 - September 17, 2017
    Brooklyn Museum, New York

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  • Kemang Wa Lehulere: Bird Song

    March 24, 2017 - June 18, 2017
    Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin

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  • Simon Gush: The Island

    March 9, 2017 - April 7, 2017
    STEVENSON, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Emeka Okereke: The Neighbour-Hood Project

    March 3, 2017 - April 4, 2017
    Bariga/Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Mikhael Subotzky: WYE

    March 2, 2017 - April 2, 2017
    Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, & Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women

    December 2, 2016 - February 18, 2017
    Alexandria Museum of Art, Los Angeles

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  • RED AFRICA: Things Fall Apart

    December 7, 2016 - March 12, 2017
    Galeria Avenida da Índia, Lisbon

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  • Good Hope? South Africa & The Netherlands from 1600

    February 17 - May 21, 2017
    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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  • Pieter Hugo: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    February 19 - July 23, 2017
    Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

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  • Pieter Hugo

    January 26 – March 11, 2017
    Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

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  • Namsa Leuba: Ethnomodern

    November 8, 2016 - January 10, 2017
    Art Twenty One, Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Seydou Keïta

    November 17, 2016 - January 14, 2017
    Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels

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  • Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016

    October 12, 2016 - January 30, 2017
    Centre pompidou, Paris

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  • Samson Kambalu: Introduction to Nyau Cinema

    August 23, 2016 - January 8, 2017
    Whitechapel Gallery, London

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  • L’autre continent (The other continent) – Artistes, Femmes, Africaines

    September 15, 2016 - December 31, 2016
    Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France

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  • Kehinde Wiley: Lamentation

    October 20, 2016 – January 15, 2017
    Petit Palais, Paris

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  • South Africa: the Art of a Nation

    October 27, 2016 - February 26, 2017
    The British Museum, London

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  • Joël Andrianomearisoa: Last Year in Antananarivo

    October 4, 2016 - December 23, 2016
    Tyburn Gallery, London

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  • Congo Art Works – Popular Painting

    October 7, 2016 - January 22, 2017
    BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

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  • Moshekwa Langa & Nora Schultz: Corner of the eye

    October 22, 2016 - January 22, 2017
    Kadist, Paris

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  • El Anatsui

    November 24, 2016 - April 28, 2017
    Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam

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  • DADA Africa

    August 5, 2016 – November 7, 2016
    The Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

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  • William Kentridge: Thick Time

    September 21, 2016 – January 15, 2017
    Whitechapel Gallery, London

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  • The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives In Photographic Portraiture From Africa

    September 7, 2016 – December 10, 2016
    Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
    Columbia University, New York

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Art Fairs

  • 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

    May 5-7, 2017
    New York

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  • Art Africa Fair

    February 24 - March 5, 2017
    V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa

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  • Also Known As Africa (AKAA)

    November 11-13, 2016
    Paris, France

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  • FNB Joburg Art Fair

    September 9-11, 2016
    Sandton Convention Centre
    Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • ART X Lagos

    November 4-6, 2016
    The Civic Centre
    Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Kampala Art Biennale

    September 3, 2016 - October 2, 2016
    Kampala, Uganda

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  • 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair

    October 6-9, 2016
    London, UK

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Festivals

  • LagosPhoto Festival 2016

    October 22, 2016 - November 21, 2016
    Lagos, Nigeria

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  • Africa Oyé Festival

    June 17-18, 2017
    Sefton Park, Liverpool

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  • Africa Festival – International Afro Music Festival

    May 25-28, 2017
    Würzburg, Germany

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  • The African Film Festival (TAFF)

    June 30, 2017 - July 3, 2017
    Dallas, Texas

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  • Film Africa RAS

    October 28, 2016 - November 6, 2016
    London

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Conferences

  • ACASA 2017 Triennial Symposium

    August 8-13, 2017
    University of Ghana
    Accra, Ghana

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  • BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures

    November 17-19, 2016
    University of the Witwatersrand
    Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Black Artists & Modernism

    October 6-7, 2016
    London

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