News & Updates
The latest additions to African Contemporary — new artists, new works and new essays on contemporary African art.
Mestre Paulo Kapela
Dancers, a work from 1971, joins the available collection.
New WorksOctober 15, 2026Alberto Chissano
Two sandalwood sculptures from 1974.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Malangatana
Woman in Profile, an ink drawing from 1970.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Ernesto Shikhani
Two ink drawings from 1992 and 1998.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026George Lilanga
A painting from 1996 joins the available collection.
New WorksOctober 14, 2026Kivuthi Mbuno
Eight drawings from 2013.
New EssayOctober 9, 2026Lamidi Fakeye and the Fakeye Family
Yoruba wood sculpture, family apprenticeship and individual authorship, with an introduction to Akin and Gani Fakeye.
New ArtistSeptember 23, 2026Tchalé Figueira
Cape Verdean painter, poet and musician (b. 1953).
New ArtistSeptember 16, 2026Marcel Gotène
One of the best-known painters of the Poto-Poto School (1939-2013) joins the gallery.
New EssaySeptember 16, 2026The Poto-Poto School
The story of the painting movement founded by Pierre Lods in Brazzaville in 1951.
New ArtistSeptember 9, 2026Ihosvanny
Angolan painter, video and installation artist (b. 1975).
New EssaySeptember 9, 2026A New Generation of Contemporary African Artists
The artists who came after the founding movements of modern African art.
New ArtistSeptember 2, 2026Koffi Kouakou
Ivorian sculptor (1962-2008) known for painted-wood miniatures of everyday objects.
New EssaySeptember 2, 2026Contemporary Art in Mozambique
Nearly a century of Mozambican art, from Maputo's Núcleo de Arte onward.
New ArtistAugust 26, 2026Louis Kakudji
Congolese-American collage artist (b. 1978) joins the gallery.
New EssayAugust 26, 2026The Modern Makonde Sculpture Movement
From Mueda Plateau ritual masks to the shetani and ujamaa genres of 1950s-60s Dar es Salaam.
New ArtistAugust 19, 2026Asiru Olatunde
Nigerian repoussé panel artist (1918-1993) associated with the Oshogbo school.
New EssayAugust 19, 2026The Ndebele Wall Painting Tradition
From a nineteenth-century response to war and dispossession to the murals of Esther Mahlangu.
New ArtistAugust 12, 2026Joseph Amedokpo
Painter from Togo (1946-2024) working on recycled flour sacks.
New EssayAugust 12, 2026Congolese Popular Painting
Kinshasa's sign painters and comic-strip illustrators, and the movement they built.