# african art (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover african art. Page: Feed: --- ## [Africa Comes to Washington With $4 Billion, Right as America Rewrites the Rules](https://africacom.substack.com/p/africa-comes-to-washington-with-4) _2026-08-19 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ A summit at National Harbor is testing whether the U.S. capital can turn a $4 billion African project pipeline into real money. ## [Dangote Files for Africa's Biggest-Ever IPO. The October Window Is Open.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/dangote-files-for-africas-biggest) _2026-08-18 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ A $5 billion NGX listing targets October, Hichilema wins Zambia at 62%, and Egypt's manufacturing export surge is drawing Chinese, Turkish, and domestic capital simultaneously. ## [West Africa's Cocoa Belt Is Heading Into a Supply Crisis](https://africacom.substack.com/p/west-africas-cocoa-belt-is-heading) _2026-08-06 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire project sharp production declines, AI now drives 55% of African cybercrime, and Zambia votes in one week. ## [On Homecomings, Liberation Architecture, and the Myth of the Blank Slate](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-homecomings-liberation-architecture) _2026-08-02 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Zanele Muholi returns to South Africa. MoMA asks what a building says about freedom. In Nairobi, an artist refuses erasure. ## [A Super El Nino Is Building. Africa's Investment Story Is Still Accelerating.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/a-super-el-nino-is-building-africas) _2026-07-29 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ The AfDB warns of a 10 to 20 billion dollar climate hit, Standard Bank confirms 1.2 billion dollars in renminbi trade flows, and Dangote picks Kenya's Lamu for a 17 billion dollar second refinery. ## [On Missing Paintings, Market Records, and Who Really Controls African Art](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-missing-paintings-market-records) _2026-07-12 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ A gallery in Cape Town is accused of holding artists' work hostage. An 82-year-old Ghanaian sculptor just outsold everyone at Frieze New York. Both stories are about the same thing. ## [When the Middle East Burns, Africa Pays](https://africacom.substack.com/p/when-the-middle-east-burns-africa) _2026-07-09 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ As the U.S.-Iran ceasefire collapses and the Strait of Hormuz closes again, the countries least responsible for the conflict are absorbing the heaviest costs. ## [Africa's Sovereign Debt Markets Are Reopening. Washington's Tariff Clock Is Running.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/africas-sovereign-debt-markets-are) _2026-07-06 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Vodacom takes control of Safaricom, Ethiopia restructures its Eurobond, oil falls to 72 dollars, and the US opens tariff hearings on eight African nations today. ## [On Portraiture, Political Imagination, and a City That Changed the Map](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-portraiture-political-imagination) _2026-07-05 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ MoMA closes in three weeks. Lagos just opened its first museum of modern art. Both matter. ## [What If the Problem Is the Leader?](https://africacom.substack.com/p/what-if-the-problem-is-the-leader) _2026-07-04 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ A new masterclass asks the question modern organisations have been avoiding. ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/719bYWrRTvk2) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [One Week Left to Apply: The Aspire Leaders Program](https://africacom.substack.com/p/one-week-left-to-apply-the-aspire) _2026-07-03 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Building Africa's Next Generation of Global Leaders ## [China Rewires Africa's Trade Finance](https://africacom.substack.com/p/china-rewires-africas-trade-finance) _2026-06-30 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Standard Bank becomes Africa's renminbi clearing gateway, Dangote moves to build the world's largest refinery, and South Africa's June 30 deadline arrives. ## [On Borders, Empty Booths, and the Art World's Passport Problem](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-borders-empty-booths-and-the-art) _2026-06-28 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ The art world claims to be borderless. This week in Basel, two African galleries proved it is not. ## [The ‘Imagined Freedom’ of Iranian women](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-imagined-freedom-of-iranian-women.html) _2026-06-25 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ on display in Seattle Iranian artist Forouzan Safari’s work, "Imagined Freedom | Revealing Bodies Never Allowed to Be Seen," at ANTiPODE art gallery in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood. Courtesy the artist. by Ayeda Masood , KUOW Forouzan Safari grew up in Isfahan, Iran, a city known for its historic mosques, bridges, and Persian-Islamic architecture. When she moved to Los Angeles in 2013 to… ## [The IMF Is Back in Dakar. Africa's Sovereign Markets Are Open for Business.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/the-imf-is-back-in-dakar-africas) _2026-06-23 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Senegal signals credibility with a $104 million early payment, the DRC prints its first Eurobond four times oversubscribed, and Kenya's streets are sending governments a clear message on the cost of t ## [On the Beautiful Game, Pan-Africanism, and a Market Finding Its Footing](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-the-beautiful-game-pan-africanism) _2026-06-21 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Fifty artists in Miami. Three hundred works in London. One number that tells you where the market really stands. ## [Iran Under Siege](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/06/iran-under-siege.html) _2026-06-17 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Tehran Diaries: Dispatches from Iran Under Siege . By Raha Nik-Andish. New York: OR Books, 2025, 90pp. by Paul Buhle , CounterPunch The text of this small volume dates from April, a “yesterday” that seems eternal, because we understand so little of what is happening in Iran in wartime, and what the Iranians themselves are thinking. The writer, using a pseudonym for obvious reasons, is an art… ## [Six Weeks to Respond. Eight African Economies in Washington's Crosshairs.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/six-weeks-to-respond-eight-african) _2026-06-17 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ US forced labour tariffs target Africa's largest economies, the Dangote IPO draws $2 billion before a share is offered, and Bharti Airtel moves to take Airtel Africa private. ## [Register Now: Executive Roundtable](https://africacom.substack.com/p/register-now-executive-roundtable) _2026-06-15 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Eunomia Global convenes senior leaders on 17 June ## [On Money, Memory, and Who the Market Belongs To](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-money-memory-and-who-the-market) _2026-06-14 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ As the world's art collectors gather in Basel, the African art market is asking harder questions than ever before. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DXwPBGnizdVQ) _2026-06-14 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Iran conflict has re-escalated. The oil price picture has changed.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/the-iran-conflict-has-re-escalated) _2026-06-11 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ Update: Edition 008, June 11 ## [How an Iranian Designer Questions His Guardians of Faith](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/06/how-iranian-designer-questions-his.html) _2026-06-11 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Courtesy PRINT Magazine by Steven Heller , PRINT Magazine Behnam Raeesian is an artist and poster designer from northern Iran, in the Sari, Mazandaran Province. He is working with “political urgency, symbolic minimalism and socially engaged visual language” on a project he titles The Fall of the Guardians . Through stark Eurocentric imagery, in a time of war, Raeesian looks at these figures… ## [Discussing the English Translation of Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime: An Interview](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/06/discussing-english-translation-of.html) _2026-06-11 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ A Conversation with Michelle Quay Michelle Quay is a scholar and translator of Persian literature and was the inaugural winner of the Mo Habib Translation Prize for Persian Literature in 2023. She teaches Persian Language and Literature, in addition to Iranian Cinema and Culture, at Brown University and holds a Ph.D. in medieval Persian literature from the University of Cambridge. Her contemporary… ## [Africa Rewrites the Rules on Critical Minerals](https://africacom.substack.com/p/africa-rewrites-the-rules-on-critical) _2026-06-11 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ The DRC triples lithium royalties, South Africa's xenophobia crisis creates new operating risks, and Middle East de-escalation offers cautious relief for Africa's oil importers. ## [On Presence, Power, and the Places That Could Not Ignore Them](https://africacom.substack.com/p/on-presence-power-and-the-places) _2026-06-07 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ From a medieval square in Basel to a presidential lobby in Chicago, a new era announces itself. ## [Ones to Watch 2025](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/06/ones-to-watch-2025.html) _2026-06-04 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Every year, BJP publishes its Ones to Watch issue – their selection of the artists who epitomise the talent and creativity in international photography today, as nominated by a global network of curators, editors and artists. Here they look at Atefe Moeini , who was nominated as part of the 2025 cohort by the artist and educator Amak Mahmoodian. Image © Atefe Moeini. Courtesy BJP. by Dalia… ## [A constitution holds, a vote lands, a virus spreads.](https://africacom.substack.com/p/a-constitution-holds-a-vote-lands) _2026-06-04 · Africa.com · Africa.com_ The institutions are holding. The votes are counting. The outbreak is not waiting. ## [With My Roots](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/05/with-my-roots.html) _2026-05-28 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Art in exile on show at London’s Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale Iran Herself is a Vineyard by Homa Bazrafshan. Courtesy Mall Galleries and The Conversation by Katayoun Shahandeh , The Conversation With Iran’s official cultural presence on the international stage increasingly uncertain, the 6th Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale in London, With My Roots , carries significance that extends well… ## [Architectural Microcosms:](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/05/architectural-microcosms.html) _2026-05-28 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ An Interview with Arash Nassiri Arash Nassiri: ‘A Bug’s Life,’ 2026, installation view at Chisenhale Gallery, London, Co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London; Fluentum, Berlin; and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, produced by Chisenhale Gallery, photo by Andy Keate. Courtesy of the artist and Berlin Art Link by William Kherbek, Berlin Art Link Forms of measurement are essentially arbitrary,… ## [Refusing to Perform an Identity](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/05/refusing-to-perform-identity.html) _2026-05-12 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Ahead of his Venice exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion, the artist, Abbas Akhavan , reflected on diasporic distance and withholding as a form of poetic practice in an interview Cast for a Folly , 2023, installation view, ‘Curtain Call’, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 2023. Photograph by David Stjernholm. Courtesy the artist, The Third Line, Dubai and Frieze. Interview by Aram Moshayedi ,… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HUz0qJIVPG6S) _2026-05-12 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [“Tarragon”—a short story](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/05/tarragona-short-story.html) _2026-05-12 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ In a wartime childhood shaped by scarcity and ritual, a pair of twins become obsessed with a plant their grandfather cannot grow. Amani Abeid, Untitled , oil on canvas, 200x150cm, 2024. Courtesy Tewas Art Gallery and the Markaz Review. by Erfan Mojib , The Markaz Review Grandpa didn’t think growing tarragon was possible. He grew all sorts of other herbs that filled the plastic container in the… ## [Symbolic accumulation as an act of universal resistance](https://aidaforoutan.blogspot.com/2026/05/symbolic-accumulation-as-act-of.html) _2026-05-06 · Dr Aida Foroutan · Art Aware_ Navid Azimi Sajadi at Studio la Linea Verticale Navid Azimi Sajadi, “Untitled”, 2025, carpet, hand-woven wool tapestry with cotton base, 89×151 cm (179 with fringes). Courtesy Studio la Linea Verticale and Juliet Art Magazine. by Emanuela Zanon , Juliet Art Magazine Mater Ex Mater – Act I , solo exhibition by Navid Azimi Sajadi (Tehran, 1982) currently on in Bologna at Studio la Linea Verticale,… ## [What the Machines Cannot Replace](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/what-the-machines-cannot-replace) _2026-03-24 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ On art, ai, and the stubborn, irreducible things that make us human. ## [Art Collector’s Guide: Reasons to Include Ceramics in Your Art Collection](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/art-collectors-guide-reasons-to-include) _2026-02-03 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ Why I’m Obsessed with Ceramics (and Why You Might Be Next) ## [5 Female South African Artists to Have on Your Radar](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/5-female-south-african-artists-to) _2026-02-02 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ Artists Worth Collecting Before Everyone Else Does ## [Collecting African Art: Top Highlights from 1:54 London 2025](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/1-54-london-2025-review-6-must-see) _2025-10-17 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ From powerful paintings to groundbreaking photography, here are the unmissable artists at the UK's leading African art fair. ## [5 Female Textiles Artists You Need To Have On Your Radar](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/5-female-textiles-artists-you-need) _2025-10-10 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ Discover the rising talents and established names redefining textiles as a medium of fine art and storytelling. ## [Discover Why Mixed Media Art Belongs in Your Collection](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/discover-why-mixed-media-art-belongs) _2025-10-06 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ From texture to technique, explore how mixed media invites deeper engagement and tells layered stories that resonate across time. ## [Are Art Fairs Killing Galleries? The High Cost and Low ROI of the Modern Art Market](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/are-art-fairs-killing-galleries-the) _2025-09-12 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ Inside the high-stakes gamble that's forcing galleries to fold. ## [Taeko Nomiya’s Double Exposures Weaves Japan and Mexico into a Single Frame](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/taeko-nomiyas-double-exposures-weaves) _2025-09-01 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ In an exclusive interview, the Mexico City-based artist discusses how her layered photographs map the complex territories of memory, heritage, and belonging. ## [Art City Guide: Guadalajara](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/art-city-guide-guadalajara) _2025-08-26 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ Where to see art, eat, and stay in Guadalajara — insider tips from NAGG’s Clarisa Navarro. ## [5 Contemporary Photographers To Have On Your Radar](https://thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/5-contemporary-photographers-to-have) _2025-08-21 · Jenny Munoz · The Nomad Salon_ From identity to memory, these photographers are shaping today’s visual culture