Twenty-six stands span the four floors at the fair’s new Harlem space

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opens largest ever US edition and adds concurrent exhibition of artists with Caribbean roots

Strauss & Co is launching a new sale format with the aim of fostering a more inclusive African art market

The Art Newspaper’s books editor Jacqueline Riding selects spring and summer publications to look out for, from the Surrealism of Leonora Carrington to 100 years of Black figuration

Dot.ateliers resembles the types of cultural spaces the Ghanaian artist says he wishes existed when he was younger

Comparing the homegrown Art X Lagos to more global events like 1-54 brings up tough questions about race that the art world still struggles to answer

Plus, how long left of the good times in the New York auction world? And abstract Black figuration

The 16th-century mask was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby’s over a decade ago amid escalating calls for restitution

The curator has brought together the work of 50 artists from across the continent for his new book African Art Now

Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases

As auction sales soar, 14 galleries are showing at this year’s contemporary African art fair for the first time

This year the fair will hold a networking event for art centres on the continent

This year's edition includes galleries with spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

Berlin Biennale conference will focus on "decolonising" arts and culture

The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa

Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery

Spanning art from 17th century to today, the show aims to explore the complex and compelling histories and cultural legacy of the African diaspora

The full story of colonial plundering lies not in museum displays but in unopened, uncatalogued boxes in store rooms

Four years after a landmark pledge to hand back colonial loot, French government has opposed a new restitution bill backed by the Senate

Birds of a Feather, held in collaboration with the Ghanaian company Artemartis, will run next month at the auction house's Berkeley Square headquarters in London

Our books editor selects some of the tempting titles arriving on bookstore shelves in the coming months

The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’

Exhibition of features contemporary works by more than 30 artists from Africa and the African diaspora from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”

Emirati art fair expects lots of US collectors as international visits to Dubai Expo give "a really good indication that people have the confidence to travel again"

Nigeria's contemporary art fair, on until Sunday in physical form and online until 21 November, has partnered with Superrare to show digital works by artists such as Youssef El Idrissi, Linda Dounia and Rendani Nemakhavhani

Twenty galleries from Africa are among 47 exhibitors at the fair in London this week, with some taking advantage of the UK's newly relaxed pandemic travel rules

One of the few Black-owned galleries in London, the space will open with a show of Nirit Takele in October as the gallery takes part in Frieze London for the first time

The 27-year-old founder of Retro Africa talks about her expansion plans and how she is helping to build a contemporary art scene in Nigeria