A Review of the landmark exhibition at the Tate Modern Modernism is typically framed as a Euro-American story. Parisian artists break with the conventions of academic art, ditching naturalism for experimentation. A relay of movements—Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism—emerge from this impulse, each successive movement defining itself against what came before. Modernism is also, quietly, a

Introduction: From Marginality to Market—and Back to First Principles What did the last decade actually deliver for the African art ecosystem? Not in terms of headlines— those we have in abundance—but in terms of structural resilience, institutional depth, and the capacity to sustain value when macro conditions turn. The African art auction market grew from