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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Inside the palace of the high priest of Vodoun in Benin, there is a framed portrait of George Floyd, with Breanna Taylor and Rashad Lewis on either side. Below their images is a line written in red ...
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 ...
High Museum exhibit ‘Ezrom Legae: Beasts’ brings overdue attention to accomplished illustrator and sculptor. Ezrom Legae is the subject of a High Museum of Art exhibition, "Beasts," focused on animal ...
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 ...
John Peffer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
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