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Tony Bravo July 21, 2021Updated: July 21, 2021, 4:59 pm Billie Zangewa’s “An Angel at My Bedside,” a hand-stitched silk collage. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London The Museum of the African Diaspora will reopen this fall for the first time since the pandemic shutdown with two first-time solo museum exhibitions by significant African contemporary artists Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa. Beginning Oct. 20, the museum announced, it will open its downtown San Francisco galleries to members, then welcome the general public the f...

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: ONE BUT TWO (Haadzii) @ Roberts Projects, Los Angeles Roberts Projects // June 05, 2021 - July 02, 2021 June 03, 2021 | in Painting "The main story from the outside is capturing the emotions and the person's spirit," Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe told us in our Winter 2021 Quarterly. "Who the person is. And then I add the dressing. You know how we Black people dress! You know how we want to stand out as people. We dress in a statement way. We want to look so powerful! So I add all those kinds of things. Things you see when you walk into a Black neighborhood. Things that make ...

We bring you the inside scoop on who is selling what. May 13, 2021 Auction houses remain mum about consignors for big ticket lots—but we've got you covered. Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images. The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really  going on in the art market.   While Sotheby’s won this auction season’s largest collection—Texas rancher Anne Marion’s $150 million trove—rival Christie’s had to put together its sales more or less lot by lot. It was difficult. Christie’s had to r...

By Arnesia Young on May 10, 2021 “Sitter,” 2019 Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California (Photo: Robert Wedemeyer) While bathing his viewer in a world awash with vibrant color, Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe forces them to look and truly see the figure staring back at them from the canvas. His evocative portraits explore what it means to be Black in America—whether you’re from here or not. And it’s impossible not to be drawn in by the arresting intensity of ea...

121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in) Price: $18,000  Davide Balliano's luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work — the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.   Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery    UNTITLED_0174, 2020  60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm) Price: $24,000  In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalis...