In the creative hot spot in West Africa that is Dakar, transdisciplinary artist Alun Be guides us through a magical art metropolis where high-tech art and ancient textile craft meet.

She describes Selebe Yoon, her gallery and arts residency located in a 10,000-square-foot space in a 1950s building, as a “hybrid art project,” one that was “far more doable in Dakar than ...

Dakar thrums to the rhythm of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art. The 15th edition of Dak'art, the continent's major contemporary art exhibition, kicked off on Thursday (Nov. 07).