Artists can combine materials like beads, fabric, and metal with the natural texture of the gourd. This fusion not only adds ...

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 of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, will officially welcome the public to its campus on November 11, the same day it unveils its MOWAA Institute. Designed by Adjaye ...

African contemporary art is commanding higher prices than ever—but local art professionals say there isn't an equivalent investment in programs to support or promote it. Pavilion of Kenya "Exercises ...

Many museums find themselves in a complicated period of transition as they confront their entanglements with colonialism. That complex project was the subject of a recent Harvard Center for African ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art reopens Friday, July 16. This is the first opportunity for visitors to see the museum’s newest exhibition, “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, ...

John K. Lapiana has been appointed director after a year and a half in an interim role following the abrupt departure of Ngaire Blankenberg. John K. Lapiana, (L), new director of the Smithsonian's ...

Painter and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya put forth a new vision of biblical figures for African Christians in the early post-colonial life of his country Jacoba Urist Station VI: Veronica wipes the ...

On the heels of the FNB Joburg Art Fair and in the lead up to the 10th Basha Uhuru Festival, the National Museum of African Art will host a 10-day series of art experiences titled “The Demonstration” ...

With a world-class museum that is the biggest public art space to open on the continent for more than a century, annual art fairs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and vibrant gallery scenes that have ...

Installation view of ‘Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’Afrique’ (photo by Aurélie Leveau © Archives Musée Dapper) Leveau never acquired anything while in Africa, but ...