#african-art

#african-art

Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia, who visited Frieze New York last week, likens visiting the behemoth fair to "scarfing down an assembly-line chopped salad in a drab Sweetgreen." Still, she encountered several works that pulled her out of the white-cube monotony and into worlds of lush canopies, diaphanous portraiture, and ancestral gardens.

On a quiet street in central Kyiv, where monuments are wrapped in sandbags and shrapnel shields, the Khanenko Museum has opened an exhibition about Africa. Its title, Africa Direct, is a statement and a method: a call to approach the continent not through inherited filters (Soviet, colonial, or western) but through direct engagement with its histories, philosophies and living cultures.