In her book Art World City, Joanna Grabski leads the reader through the tangled streets of Dakar's vibrant and complex art scene. Her seventeen years of research and relationship building in the city allow her to guide us through her descriptions and analyses of how Dakar defines the paradigm of being an “art world city.”

She offers “art world city” as an example in which the urban area is a site of production, mediation, and translation, and the local and global dynamics of the creative economy uniquely combine. She examines the intersection of the local “art scene” and the “global art world.” The complexities of the global and local, visuality and production, and the ever-present economic challenges of being an artist in an international city are described by Grabski with nuance and clarity. Her arguments are built upon in-depth archival research and illuminated through numerous interviews and anecdotes. Her...

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