Prices for his portraits are currently skyrocketing, but Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo was once told his art was 'too black.' He talks about focussing on his work through it all and his new show 'I Stand by Me.'
'This is a historic moment for us in Ghana,' said Ghana’s Tourism Minister, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, of the country's first Venice Biennale pavilion. The theme they chose to mark the event honors the past, and makes a powerful statement at the international event.