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 ...
The art world moved forward with glowing renovations to some of New York City’s cultural jewels, as well as sweeping surveys ...
Artworks at the Kalahari Resorts & Conventions don’t just look African. They are African. Hand picked by owners Todd and Shari Nelson–and family–on purchasing trips to the continent. ByChadd Scott, ...
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 vision behind this new cultural space comes from an Ethiopian aunt–niece duo, Selamawit Alene and Dorina De Vita, whose ...
At Johannesburg's lush Shepstone Gardens, crews unpack paintings, place tape on the floor and adjust lighting ahead of RMB ...
Some surprising patrons from the contemporary art realm provided assistance. Asmat funerary poles in the arts of Oceania galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
The Savannah African Art Museum is home to a collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from West and Central Africa. The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century ...
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 ...
In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...
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