In a study published in Telestes, Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Dr. Margarita Díaz-Andreu categorized the various dance scenes ...

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 ...

In the 2018 movie “Black Panther,” as a prelude to a murderous heist, the villain, Erik Killmonger, looks at African artifacts in the fictional Museum of Great Britain. Masks, statuary and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Museum for African Art will begin exhibitions again when it reopens at its 110th St. location in 2009. It's not always easy to track down the Museum of African Art. Although it was only founded in ...

The museum, which has long collected works by black artists, rehangs some of its galleries to offer a fascinating journey ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Saturday marked opening day and a long-awaited reunion for a community that brings African cultures to Tucson. The African Art Village returned to the Menlo Park area of the ...

South Africa has cancelled its "highly divisive" submission for this year's Venice Biennale by artist Gabrielle Goliath.

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...