Growing up near the village of Sangha on Mali's Bandiagara Escarpment, Amahigueré Dolo always felt compelled to make art. How could he not? He lived in the heart of Dogon country, which is famous for ...

PARIS (Reuters) - With its full beard and elongated breasts, worn smooth by the hands of thousands of women praying for fertility, an androgynous wooden statue is the centrepiece of a new Paris show ...

– After Mali became independent, Western dealers scoured the country in search of objets d’art. Some of these works, acquired under opaque conditions, are now worth several million euros. – We have ...

African statue isolated on a black background. You can see the gift here - a wooden sculpture of a male figure originating from the Dogon people of Mali estimated to be about 250 years old. It is less ...

The Dogon people of Mali are famous for their unique door carvings, which are rich in symbolism and cultural significance ...

An exhibition of Dogon art from Mali has just opened at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. The largest exhibition in 20 years, it brings together more than 300 sculptures, masks and everyday objects all ...

THE sculpture which has been produced by the natives of Western and Central Africa has existed for ages, but its proper appreciation by us can be dated from the turn of this century. Although the’ ...

Object for object, “The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts” provides perhaps the most flat-out beautiful museum exhibition in Los Angeles so far this year. A selection of about 100 ...