NewsTEFAF Maastricht 2019
Savoy-Sarr report fails to dent tribal market, says Tefaf exhibitor
Didier Claes, who was consulted for the restitution report commissioned by French president Emmanuel Macron, says it has invigorated the market for African art
NewsAfrican art
Brooklyn Museum's detective work reveals original owners of African mask
Family elders give blessing to new exhibition of Yorùbá masquerade costume, stolen from Nigerian shrine room 70 years ago
NewsRestitution
Nigeria calls for return of Lander Stool from the British Museum
Woodcarving was taken from the African country in 1830 by the UK explorer Richard Lander
PreviewExhibitions
A careful collector’s gift of African objects and Modern art is celebrated in Detroit
New exhibition is dedicated to Margaret Demant—a passionate booster of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection
PreviewExhibitions
When Saharan sands glittered with gold: how the world's largest desert was a major medieval trade route
New exhibition at the Block Museum of Art looks at the artefacts that flowed through the region assisted by the spread of Islam
NewsAfrican art
Africa’s pre-colonial ‘crown jewels’ to find a home in new South African museum
Javett Art Centre at University of Pretoria will display 800-year-old gold collection excavated in the 1930s
AnalysisRestitution
The repatriation debate intensifies as calls for post-colonial restitution grow—but is it legal?
Recommendations from Savoy-Sarr report into restitution by French museums may contravene the country’s laws
NewsCultural policy
'Give Africa its art back', Macron's report says
A new report on the status of African objects in French museums will urge the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period
PreviewArt market
Frieze 2018 reveals strong UK-South African ties
South African artists are enjoying a growth in overseas interest, as seen in London this month
NewsAfrican art
Contested Asante trophy head to shine in new Wallace room
Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery
NewsRestitution
Angola recovers six artefacts looted from museum during civil war
Dundo Museum's lost objects were traced by the Sindika Dokolo Foundation
PreviewExhibitions
The futuristic architecture that emerged from Mobutu’s Kinshasa comes to MoMA
First US survey of Bodys Isek Kingelez shows how his sculptures addressed urban, social and economic concerns in Congo
NewsLooted art
Hamburg museum says its Benin bronzes could return to Nigeria—but not yet
Applied arts institution is showing the sculptures in a looted art exhibition
NewsLoot
Will the British Museum lend Nigeria the Benin bronzes?
Planned museum in Benin City offers safe environment for Western collections, the country says
NewsMuseums
Norval Foundation near Cape Town opens months after launch of city's Zeitz museum
Staff from Africa's first mega museum have defected to the new private institution
FeatureArt Dubai 2018
Is interest in African art on the rise in the Middle East?
An increased presence of African galleries at this edition of Art Dubai could signify a flourishing regional market
NewsArt market
Can Marrakech's 1-54 art fair step into the breach of city's cancelled biennial?
New fair brings contemporary African art home, but jury is out as to whether a commercial event can replace a government funded biennial
NewsArt market
Object lessons: a Surrealist ménage à trois, a Yoruba princess and a rare Futurist painting
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
NewsMuseums
Marrakech museum boosts Africa’s burgeoning art scene
Macaal’s international launch coincides with city’s first 1-54 Contemporary African Art fair
NewsAfrican art
Paris's Dapper Foundation stalls talks over Cameroonian sculpture
Known as the Bangwa Queen, the object was either given to or looted by the German colonial agent Gustav Conrau
CommentMuseums
How Egypt is destroying Cairo and civil society
The pharaonic new museum will not make up for misguided policies
NewsAfrican art
Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris is ready to return African art
Head of the ethnographic institution applauds President Macron’s pledge to hand back African cultural heritage
AnalysisThe Year In Review
From VR masterpieces to PR disasters: 2017's ups and downs
The Art Newspaper team assesses the art world's fortunes in a turbulent year
CommentRestitution
'We need to confront uncomfortable truths about European colonial appropriation'
Nicholas Thomas, professor of historical anthropology at Cambridge University, on the French President's statements about African artefacts
NewsMuseums
Marrakech bids to become hub for contemporary African art as museum plans relaunch alongside 1:54 fair
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will hold "international opening" in February
News
Musée Dapper, Paris museum specialising in African art, to shut up shop
High costs and low footfall put end to non-profit institution
News
Venture capitalist Jean Pigozzi plans foundation to house huge contemporary African art collection
Works from his 10,000-strong holdings are on show in extensive survey at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
NewsAuctions
Sotheby’s first Modern and contemporary African art sale set to be a record-breaker
London auction includes 60 artists from 14 countries across the continent, with several making their debut
NewsCollectors
Will former Frieze chairman Robert Devereux’s collection of art from Africa and the diaspora return to the continent?
As the first public show of the work opens in the UK, the former Virgin partner says he is looking for an “appropriate recipient” for donation
CommentRestitution
Returning looted African art is as urgent as giving back works stolen by the Nazis
Congolese-born art collector Sindika Dokolo says this "long-neglected historical wrong" is finally being addressed—but more can be done
Sindika Dokolo