Pride and Belonging in African Art’ at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, discusses the cultural effects of a brutal crackdown in Iran and takes a look at a landmark 1958 installat ...
For Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century European masters, African art was a revelation—innovative, sophisticated and to their eyes strikingly modern. They insisted that the continent’s creative ...
For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...
Exhibition Explores How LGBTQ+ Artists From Africa and Its Diaspora Are Part of a Larger, Joyful Story of African Art History ...
On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...
The largest show of African art in more than 25 years in Fort Worth opens at the Kimbell Art Museum. The Language of Beauty in African Art is a major new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum — with ...
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art opened in late October 2014 in Cambridge, Mass., its exterior walls serving as both real and metaphoric grounding for the Hutchins ...
Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...
The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...
A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...
The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...