Last week, the New Orleans Museum of Art trumpeted the hiring of a new curator to oversee the 112-year-old institution’s trove of traditional art from various African cultures. North Carolina native ...

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 ...

A revealing new study has unveiled the millennia-long history behind the intricate rock paintings at Kakapel, a renowned archaeological site in western Kenya. For decades, the dense overlapping of ...

The DIA’s lead curator of African American art discusses what it means to move a collection from the margins of a museum to ...

With Frieze London just a little over a month away, Christie’s has unveiled a new charitable initiative in collaboration with the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Nigeria. The auction house will ...

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For decades, African art occupied the international margins. But several fairs and exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale ...

At a time when Africa’s creative economy is emerging as a critical pathway for youth employment and global influence, BIC, a world leader in stationery, lighters, and shavers and a longstanding ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

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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 ...