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The Best Booths at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, From Surrealist Fantasias to Afro-Brazilian Imaginings

Viewers at the 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair in New York. Courtesy 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea—just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA—with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call for the “ever-expanding narratives of the African diaspora,” as fair director Touria El Glaoui described it.…