Morocco’s top tourist attraction, Marrakech, is gradually becoming a key stop on the art market’s destinations with the holding of the renowned African art fair, 1:54, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Macaal) this month, said The Independent. In an article that highlights facets of the city’s art fairs, the paper described the Red City as witnessing a “contemporary art revolution” that has actually been brewing for years behind the implacable facades of the medina Riads and in the stark, modern buildings of the dusty suburbs. The paper said that Marrakech is offering a showcase platform of African art. “Marrakech was an important art hub long before Cape Town, partly because it attracted so many creative people like Yves Saint Laurent from Europe. But now we want to attract African artists from our continent,” the paper quotes a local art lover as saying.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 19, 2018 00:33 UTC