Despite currency collapse of Nigeria's naira and a weakened South African rand, the category performed better than the overall market

The restitution of artefacts from France in 2022 has energised Benin’s cultural and heritage sector, as is clear from the country’s four-artist presentation at the Biennale

Four new museums across the country are planned over the next five years and a new cultural quarter is under construction in the biggest city, Cotonou

Niles Luther began his composing career working with the artist Kehinde Wiley

A selling exhibition of 27 established and emerging artists opens at Christie’s auction house ahead of a planned launch of the fair in the city next year

While artists have decried the platform’s shift beyond still images, institutions are getting on board

The inauguration of the nearly $900m building has been delayed since 2020

Outside of the artists' work, the pavilion will show projects made in collaboration with the Museum of West African Art

Gallery expansions, international attendance and a celebratory mood define the contemporary African art expo’s return to Morocco

Purple Hibiscus will be unveiled in April as part of a new exhibition at the gallery

The gallery was founded in the Nigerian city in 2015 and has since added an outpost in Los Angeles

The gallerists aim to break down the white cube model and make the art world more accessible through their new roving venture

The winner of the 2023 Eye Art & Film Prize also discusses the challenge of eliciting a “360-degree experience” and her interest in Italian new wave cinema

We speak to the performance artist about the UK premiere of her tribute to the legendary singer at the English National Opera

The artist and filmmaker will receive $30,000 to put towards a new work

Organisers have announced a series of selling exhibitions at Christie's Hong Kong in March next year

From Wangari Mathenge at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to a celebration of Black British designers at Somerset House

Famous and emerging artists from the country feature at both the contemporary African art fair, with a record number of exhibitors this year, and at Frieze Masters

The South African-born businessman, who helped bring a large-scale sculpture from Lagos to the Nevada desert, is developing a taste for tapestries

The work by the Ethiopian-American artist was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong for $9.32m with fees

Paris mayor describes project as “a very fine example of the art world’s ability to adapt to climate challenges”

Appeal brings artists and institutions together to raise funds to support survivors and long-term reconstruction

Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition will touch upon her dark past as well as her groundbreaking designs

She joins following a protracted row over alleged systemic racism within the institution

The exhibition, featuring eight Nigeria-based and diasporic artists, will be curated by Aindrea Emelife

Thirteen artists have been commissioned by the musician to make works corresponding to singles on his new record

South London Gallery in Peckham (aka Little Lagos) will show work of 13 artists including Yinka Shonibare, bringing to light the shared cultures of the two places

Adebunmi Gbadebo, who makes work from the soil her ancestors lived and worked on, is one of three rising artists in a new ceramics show at Maximillian William gallery in London

This year's Parcours sector reveals—to both visitors and locals—some of the Swiss city's hidden gems

Artist aims to elicit both catharsis and discomfort from audiences for her music performances outside the Art Basel fair