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AACHRON Divisions

Publishing project to issue critical texts on contemporary African arts, established by Sylvester Ogbechie.

AACHRONYM
Sylvester Ogbechie's contemporary African arts blog. 
Africa Centre
Cape Town based pan-African multidisciplinary project.
Africa Resource

Educational portal founded by Nkiru Nzegwu. 

African Colours
For news and information on art and artists in Africa
African Journal of History and Culture
Peer-reviewed open-access online journal.
Africultures
Multi-disciplinary site.
AICA
International Association of Art Critics.
Archival Platform
South African organisation that aims is to facilitate dialogue and information sharing between professionals, academics and government employees in the heritage and archive sector.
Art Africa
Includes the most comprehensive database on lusophone African artists currently available. NB text in Portuguese and English.
Art Archives - South Africa
Includes indexes of artists featured in historical publications such as Lantern, Our Art, and Artlook, including pdf's of many early pressclips. Maintained by the Haenggi Foundation.
Art Speak Africa
Curator Bisi Silva's informative blog.
Arts in Africa
Website of the Arterial Network.
Artthrob
South Africa's most established visual arts website, founded by Sue Williamson.
Badilisha Poetry X-Change
Platform for Pan-African poets.
Chimurenga
who no know go know
Contemporary African Art Collection
Creative Africa Network
Aims to "Connect the African and Diaspora creative worlds".
Dak'Art
Official website of Africa's best known biennale.
Delta Gallery & Gallery magazine
Zimbabwe's preeminent independent gallery. All 31 issues of Gallery magazine (1994-2002) available online (see Publications).
Department of Arts and Culture
Useful site but does not elaborate on nature of agreements concluded with African countries.
Eddie Chambers
Eloquent and provocative critic who wrote one of the best critiques of the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale.
G.I.Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture
Photos from the 1930s.
Greatmore Studios/ Thupelo Workshop
One of the few South African art projects to have consistently engaged in cultural exchange with artists from African countries
Homage to Asele
This subsite of a larger site contains information on Homage to Asele, a tribute to Uche Okeke at 70.
Ijele
Online journal for contemporary African arts.
L'Appartement 22
Innovative project established in Rabat, Morocco, by curator Abdellah Karroum.
Modern African Art: A Basic Reading List
Compiled by Janet L.Stanley, National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian Institutions African art museum. More Garth Erasmus artworks here than at all South African public collections combined!
NKA Foundation
Kumasi based network of arts village and arts-based community projects in Africa and beyond.
Nollywood Foundation
Established by Sylvester Ogbechie to promote the Nigerian film industry.
Ofodunka
Blog established by Chika Okeke-Agulu that covers "art, life and politics". Includes essay on Africa in Venice.
Pelmama
Haenggi Foundation website useful for information on the Johannesburg art scene, 1960-1990.
South African History Online
Online Exhibitions include The Neglected Tradition, Dumile: Artist in Exile; Thami Mnyele; and several by leading South African photographers, including Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim (Cuito, Angola). Features full texts of Erica Clark's Protest Art (see resources>theses) and Mario Pissarra's Criticism & Censorship in the Alternative Press, with particular reference to the cartoons of Zapiro & Bauer (1985-1990) (see Arts & Culture)
Southern Perspectives
Australian based project promoting south-south exchange.
The Olu Oguibe Homepage
Eloquent, provocative...
Third Text
Official website of Third Text/Black Umbrella.

 

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