This year’s edition will highlight contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora through both an online platform and an in-person exhibition.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
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The Tantalizing Photographic Figure at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
At the fair, you can trace visual conversations happening across regions of Africa and their diasporic communities.
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Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2019
Check out Hyperallergic’s guide to the art fairs of Frieze Week in New York.
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Brooklyn’s Art Fairs Do Their Own Thing During Frieze Week
During the 2018 Frieze Week, there are three art fairs in Brooklyn and we had to check them out.
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The Stories of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair
From Ralph Ziman’s massive Ziman sculpture to Uthman Wahaab’s painterly critiques of technology, this art fair devoted to contemporary African art is packed with fascinating projects of every kind.
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Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2018
As Frieze and TEFAF go head-to-head, eight other fairs or fair-like endeavors are vying for your attention (and time, and money) this week.
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Learning Political Lessons at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
This year, there are several artworks at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair that are worth digging deeper into.
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Focusing on Photo Portraits at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair
Seventeen galleries from all over the world have convened to exhibit the work of pan-African artists and artists of the African diaspora.
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Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2016
New York City’s second big week of art fairs, Frieze Week, has become almost as dauntingly vast as its first, Armory Week, but we’re here to help!
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A Contemporary African Art Fair Arrives in New York
It may at first thought seem odd that the newest addition to Frieze Week in New York is a fair devoted to contemporary African art.
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Your Concise Guide to Frieze Week 2015
Have you finally recovered from Armory Week? Are you ready to do it all again? Too bad, because it’s Frieze Week in New York City!