El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 : Bilbao, Spain

July 17, 2020 - November 01, 2020 Exhibition July 17, 2020 November 01, 2020 Europe/London El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 : Bilbao, Spain

The practice of El Anatsui (b. 1944, Anyako, Ghana), possibly the most prominent African artist today, exemplifies a neverending search for models that offer an alternative to the modernist canons of purity. This retrospective will be the most ambitious ever presented of Anatsui’s career and will cover all the series and mediums used by the artist over five decades of work. The exhibition pays special attention to the most monumental aspect of Anatsui’s sculptures, through emblematic pieces created over the past twenty years with plastic bottle caps as a fundamental component.

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Tribal Art Fair

Online: Online

October 29, 2020 - November 01, 2020 Fair October 29, 2020 November 01, 2020 Europe/London Tribal Art Fair Online: Online

The Tribal Art Fair is one of the four most important ethnographic fairs in Europe. This is reflected in the international character of the fair. Participants come from various countries, such as the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Thailand and the USA, and visitors travel to Amsterdam from all over the world to visit the fair too. The fair is of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about tribal art. Guided tours are organised and you can find out information from the gallery owners. Of course, there’s also plenty for long-standing collectors to see. Tribal art is about so much more than masks and sculptures. It also encompasses textiles, jewellery and utensils. It goes without saying that this diversity will also be on display at the Tribal Art Fair. For years now, ethnographic objects have been a source of inspiration for artists, designers and interior designers. The way in which these objects were made by specialised craftsmen is unique. In addition, special materials were often used for the objects.

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TEFAF New York Fall

Park Avenue Armory: New York, United States

November 01, 2020 - November 05, 2020 Fair November 01, 2020 November 05, 2020 Europe/London TEFAF New York Fall Park Avenue Armory: New York, United States

As the world's most buoyant art market, New York City provides the ideal context for a TEFAF Fair outside Maastricht, and allows a vital, transatlantic meeting ground for a global community of dealers, collectors, curators, interior designers and art-and-antiques enthusiasts. We are proud to present TEFAF New York Fall, with a focus on fine and decorative arts from antiquity to 1920.

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ART X Lagos

The Civic Centre, Victoria Island: Lagos, Nigeria

November 06, 2020 - November 08, 2020 Fair November 06, 2020 November 08, 2020 Europe/London ART X Lagos The Civic Centre, Victoria Island: Lagos, Nigeria

ART X Lagos is West Africa’s premier international art fair, designed to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary art from the African continent and its Diaspora. Launched in 2016, the art fair has since become a cornerstone of the Lagos art calendar, drawing local patrons and a host of international collectors, curators, and critics annually.

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African Arts—Global Conversations

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States

February 14, 2020 - November 15, 2020 Exhibition February 14, 2020 November 15, 2020 Europe/London African Arts—Global Conversations Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: New York, United States

African Arts—Global Conversations puts African arts where they rightfully belong: within the global art historical canon. It brings those works into greater, meaningful art historical conversations and critiques previous ways that encyclopedic museums and the field of art have or have not included them. African Arts—Global Conversations presents thirty-three works, including twenty by African artists. Highlights include a celebrated eighteenth-century Kuba sculpture, fourteenth- to sixteenth-century Ethiopian Orthodox processional crosses, and a mid-twentieth-century Sierra Leonean Ordehlay or Jollay society mask. Also featured are recent works by Atta Kwami, Ranti Bam, Magdalene Odundo OBE, and Taiye Idahor, which are paired with artworks by Māori, Seminole, Spanish, American, Huastec, and Korean artists.

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Piasa Contemporary African Art

118 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008: Paris, France

November 25, 2020 - November 25, 2020 Auction November 25, 2020 November 25, 2020 Europe/London Piasa Contemporary African Art 118 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008: Paris, France

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