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The African Feeling — Skepta as Collector of Black & African Art
Joseph Junior Adenuga grew up in Tottenham, North London, in a home where Nigerian art lined the walls. His parents brought it...
Soulful Elegance — Lenny Kravitz as Black Artist & Designer
Most people know Lenny Kravitz as a rock star. Fewer know that he founded a design studio in 2003, has designed interiors...
The House That Ancestors Built — Lenny Kravitz & African Art
Lenny Kravitz owns homes in Paris, the Bahamas, Brazil, New York and Miami. The one he talks about most is the Paris...
Thirty Years Out Loud — What Jay-Z in 8 Actually Reveals
For thirty years, Shawn Carter kept the space between a lyric and its meaning as private property. Part of the pleasure of...
The Unfinished Man — What Jay-Z Sees in Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat died at 27. Jay-Z is one of the most powerful men in the music and art world. They never met....
The Artist Gets Paid — Swizz Beatz, Alicia Keys & the Royalty Revolution
The art market has a problem it has refused to solve for decades. When a painting sells at auction for millions, the...
Casa Ferreirinha & Afrikanizm Art Debut at Angola's Big Bottle Week
Last year, for their debut at Big Bottle Week in Luanda, Sogrape, Casa Ferreirinha and Afrikanizm Art joined forces in a one-of-a-kind...
Africa Was Never Just a Place — MoMA's Ideas of Africa
Contemporary African & Black Art Contemporary African Museums You’ll Regret Not Visiting Africa Was Never Just a Place. Ideas of Africa:...
Training the Ancestors: How African Artists are Reclaiming AI and Sovereign Datasets
This article explores how African digital artists are moving past the copyright debate to tackle algorithmic bias head-on. By building closed-source, localized...