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African art collecting picks up
May22

African art collecting picks up

More African individuals and businesses are spending on or investing in art than a few years earlier, with the focus on contemporary art produced by artists on the African continent or in  locations elsewhere , anecdotal evidence and art market trends suggest. There’s also an emerging trend toward restitution of historical cultural materials now outside Africa. At Bonhams’ sale 21 May 2014, entitled Africa Now and billed...

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One up on the avant-garde
Mar06

One up on the avant-garde

How time flies and its tangible and intangible outcomes linger around and sometimes sustain us. The October Gallery in London celebrates its 35th anniversary in April 2014 and, according to its founders, the date coincides with the birth of the transvangarde movement, writes SAJID RIZVI. The gallery lays claim to having coined the phrase, which means beyond — but also perhaps through — avant-garde in the widest sense...

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africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi

The artist El Anatsui, featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report and publisher of the first book on the artist’s work (El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa | Buy this book) at the opening of his exhibition at the October Gallery, London, in August 2005. Below are edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. What has happened since africa95 in the world of...

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