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African art around the world – in pictures

African art: Fake Death Picture by Yinka Shonibare
Savannah, Georgia: Yinka Shonibare's Fake Death Picture (The Death of Chatterton – Henry Wallis) 2011. From Addio del Passato, at SCAD Museum of Art until 27 January
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and the Stephen Friedman Gallery
African art: Roger Ballen's Mimicry, 2005
St Petersburg: Roger Ballen's Mimicry, 2005. From Shadow Land, at the Rosphoto State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography until 19 December Photograph: Roger Ballen
African art: Godfried Donkor, The Currency of Ntoma
Amsterdam: Godfried Donkor's The Currency of Ntoma (fabric), a two-channel video projection, 2012. From Hollandaise, at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam until 6 January Photograph: Godfried Donkor
African art: Rose Shakinovsky's PC
Cape Town: Rose Shakinovsky's PC, 2007/9. From spring show at the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town, until 7 December Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery
African art: Robin Rhode's Yard, 2011
Cape Town: Robin Rhode's Yard, 2011. From Fiction as Fiction, at the Stevenson Gallery until 12 January
Photograph: Courtesy of Robin Rhode and Stevenson Johannesburg/Cape Town
African art: Pierrot Men. La mer comme quotidien, 2011
Antananarivo: Pierrot Men's La mer comme quotidien, 2011. From Il était une femme, at no comment until 31 December Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
African art: Bruno Boudjelal. Alger series “Frantz Fanon”
Chalon sur Saône: Bruno Boudjelal's Frantz Fanon. From Archives and Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre? (Algeria, closed like closing a book?), at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce until 20 January
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Agence VU
African art: J&K's Horus and Anubis in Islamic Cairo, 2006
Doha: J&K's Horus and Anubis in Islamic Cairo, 2006. From Tea With Nefertiti, at the Arab Museum of Modern Art until 31 March
Photograph: Unknown/courtesy of the artists
African art: Intranquillités by Charif Benhelima, Mohamed El Baz and Mounir Fatmi
Charleroi: Intranquillités, by Charif Benhelima, Mohamed El Baz and Mounir Fatmi, at BPS22 space for contemporary creation until 16 December Photograph: Leslie Artamonow
African art: Projet Voyage 2012, by Meschac Gaba and Hermann Pitz
Cotonou: Projet Voyage 2012, by Meschac Gaba and Hermann Pitz. From Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen, at the Biennale Bénin until 13 January
Photograph: Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Lumentravo, Amsterdam and In Situ, Paris
African art: Untitled (Textile) by Joel Andrianomearisoa
London: Untitled (Textile). From Joel Andrianomearisoa's Waiting for the Seventh Day That Will Bring Us Together, at the Jack Bell Gallery until 15 December
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery
African art: William Kentridge I am not me, the horse is not mine, 2008
London: William Kentridge in collaboration with Philip Miller and Catherine Meyburgh: I am not me, the horse is not mine, (video stills from installation, 2008) . At the Tate Modern until 20 January Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
African art: Wangechi Mutu's Eye Spy, 2012
Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu's Eye Spy, 2012. From N̶i̶t̶a̶r̶u̶d̶i̶ Ninarudi, Swahili for I̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶t̶u̶r̶n̶ I am returning, at the Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects until 22 December
Photograph: Elisabeth Burnstein
African art: Pascale Marthine Tayou's The Magic Calabash
Rome: Pascale Marthine Tayou's The Magic Calabash, 2012. From Secret Garden, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome until 10 February Photograph: Courtesy Galleria Continua
African art: The Catacombs, 5 February 1968
San Fransisco: The Catacombs, 5 February 1968, by Billy Monk. From David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, and Billy Monk's South Africa in Apartheid and After, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until 5 March
Photograph: Estate of Billy Monk and Stevenson Johannesburg/Cape Town
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