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Growing global demand for emerging African artists helps pull the crowds to the Cape Town Art Fair
Major museum exhibitions, auctions and a new conference are all testament to the impact the fair is having on the local art ecosystem
Art marketnews
Cape Town Art Fair feels the absence of European collectors
Visitor numbers were good, but sales of higher priced works were slow at the South African event
Cape Town wildfire 'guts' university library that houses anti-apartheid archives and one of the world’s largest African film collections
Blaze has ripped through the Reading Room of the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town
South Africafeature
Nando’s enormous collection puts the peri-peri in African art
With over 22,000 works hung on its walls, the popular chicken chain is an unlikely champion for emerging South African artists
Private Museumscomment
Zeitz Mocaa: Africa’s private ‘Tate Modern’ must do more for its public
More than a year after opening, the Cape Town museum’s curatorial and educational record has yet to live up to its promise
Africaarchive
African collectors share the wealth as private museums proliferate
Theo Danjuma proposes a non-profit gallery in one of his father's hotels in Lagos. In South Africa, a $45m contemporary art museum is underway