Art World City

"Concise and insightful, Joanna Grabski's Art World City should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in contemporary art on the continent of Africa, its politics, its display, its economics, and in methods of how to

understand and write about it in manner that treats the art of Dakar with the autonomy and agency it clearly expresses."—African Arts

" Art World City is a valuable addition to the anthropology of cities and of art worlds. It stretches and revises the notion of art world to include multiple scales, and illustrates how the city enables simultaneous engagement for artists with local, national, Pan-African, and global discourses and platforms."—City & Society

"In her fine-grained analysis, Joanna Grabski demonstrates the ways that the urban environment and the sites of art production, exhibition, and sale imbricate one another to constitute Dakar as an Art World City."—Mary Jo Arnoldi, author of Playing with Time

"Needless to say, one can find contemporary artists and arts in any African city just as one can anywhere else in the world, but not with the profusion and shared pride of Dakar. Why is this? Engaging tales thereby hang, and the author is a most masterful raconteuse."—Allen F. Roberts, author of A Dance of Assassins

"Art World City is a beautiful book. The photographs, most of which are by the author, are stunning."—