Duende's stories attract our readers' attention since 2013 (previously hosted on brunoclaessens.com) and wishes to provide a useful resource for information on art of the African continent and its diaspora. Stories include exhibition announcements and reviews, interviews with artists, discoveries, new research, auction news, etc.
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“When I’m not painting, I’m thinking about painting.”
An interview with Diane Marie Uwase
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Our mask on view this week at the PAN art Fair in Amsterdam -
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Notes on an antique drinking cup
by “The Wongo Master of the Pursed Horizontal Lips”
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Mostaff Muchawaya, "Chiedza", 2022. Mixed media on canvas, 171 x 131 cm -
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Jan de Clerck at his home with an Igala statue and Ibibio mask, December 2022 -
"A place with no name" catalog cover. Works from the Sina Jina Collection. Christie's London. -
A Shona man sleeping on his side while using a headrest. Photographed by Leo Frobenius in 1928. -
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Installation view UNSETTLED. -
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Portrait of the artist. Image courtesy of Lumen Travo Gallery. -
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Image courtesy of the MARKK. -
San petroglyph, South Africa. Image courtesy of the Weltmuseum (inv. no. 57585, info). -
Karagwe quadruped. Image courtesy of the UMMA (#1985/2.91). -
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Image courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum (935.10.1). -
Pende mask collected by Emil Torday, 1907-1909. Image courtesy of the Budapest Museum of Ethnography (#NM 80674). -
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A computer-generated impression of the main entrance and courtyard of the planned Edo Museum of West African Art in Nigeria. Image courtesy of Adjaye Associates. -
Part of the Giovanni Miani collection from South Sudan at the Museum of Natural History, Venice (Italy). -
Luba kifwebe mask, D.R. Congo. Image courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum (#81.17.869, info). -
Ikenga statue collected by Thomas Northcote Whitridge (info). Image courtesy of the MAA. -
Young Bwende men on their way to the missionary station of Kingyi to give in their ‘minkisi’ power statues in order to convert to Christianity. Photographed by Edvard Karlman in 1912. Collection Statens museer för världskultur – Etnografiska museet, Stockholm (0177.0025). -
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A display of the archaeological and anthropological collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. © LatitudeStock/Alamy Stock Photo. -
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Right: Mbembe artist; male figure with rifle; 19th to early 20th century; wood; 77.8 cm; gift of Heinrich Schweizer in memory of Merton D. Simpson, 2016-12-1; left: Mbembe artist; female figure; 19th to early 20th century; wood; 68 cm; museum purchase, 85-1-12. Image courtesy of the National Museum of African Art. -
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Kevin Dumouchelle with an untitled 2009 work by El Anatsui at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington. Image courtesy of Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. -
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Image courtesy of Jonathan Fine. -
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
Image courtesy of the Moma. -
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
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Installation shot of the Musée de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, in the 1970s. Photo by Bohumil Holas, courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly (PP0179800). -
Jukun headdress, Nigeria. Height: 114,3 cm. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015.445). Purchase, Pfeiffer, Leona Sobel Education, 2005 Benefit, and Dodge Funds; Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family; Andrea Bollt Bequest, in memory of Robert Bollt Sr. and Robert Bollt Jr.; Elaine Rosenberg, James J. Ross, and The Katcher Family Foundation Inc. Gifts, 2015. -
Mask. Saibai Island, Torres Strait (Northern Islands, Australia), pre 1870, wood, human hair, shell, seedpod, fiber, pigment, melo shell and coix seeds. Collection Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 2015. -
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Ikenga figure. Height: 73,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. -
Photograph by Peter Zeray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
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Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. -
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Image courtesy of Neoscape/Robert A.M. Stern Architects
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