Dynamic Africa provides a and-picked list of African and Afro-Diasporan art events happening around the world on its Tumblr page that is updated weekly. Dynamic Africa is a Pan-African Cultural blog with a contemporary focus. With a team of contributors based worldwide, Dynamic Africa offers African-based news, lifestyle & cultural platform focused on the continent & diaspora.
Such listing includes:
“Njideka Akunyili Crosby” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
In her Los Angeles debut, Nigerian-American artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby brings her large scale works on paper, which combine collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking, fusing African and American influences and creative traditions, to the California gallery.
(Njideka Akunyili Crosby: “Nwantinti”)
Reflecting on contemporary, postcolonial African cosmopolitanism and her experiences as an expatriate living in America, her intimate paintings provide an important counter-narrative to the often troubled representation of Africa’s complex political and social conditions.
When: October 3 – 10 January 2016
Where: Hammer Museum
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Author: TSSF
The Single Story Foundation is a nonprofit organization which provides storytelling opportunities for Africans at home and in diaspora.
We seek to change the stereotype through visual art, literature, and performing art. At The Single Story Foundation, we believe that storytelling is one of the ways we can fix the damage caused by Western storytelling.
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