STORY: :: Africa's international art fair ARTX Lagos explores 'Promised Lands' :: November ... their perspectives on the fair ...

African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for ...

On Oct. 22, the Walters Academic Building hosted Senegalese artists Docta and Simon, who showcased their craft which ...

On a visit to the Brooklyn Museum on October 7, 2023, I felt proud to see a Palestinian “thobe” like the ones I study. But then I saw the wall label.

“Accra has become one of the cities in Ghana that has moved internationally towards the contemporary arts whilst keeping its ...

Aurochs went extinct around 400 years ago which left much of their evolutionary history a mystery — until scientists ...

As immersive art museums proliferate around the globe, it can be hard to tell the best from the rest. Start with these ...

Since the documentary’s cameras stopped rolling, plans for a new museum to showcase the treasures have stalled, and the ...

“Dahomey,” a formally inventive documentary, traces the journey across continents of 26 artworks looted from the West African ...

I look for a combination of things in artists—quality of ideas and artistic outcomes, work ethic and discipline, even if, for ...

There is a common thread of misinformation that has been woven into the origin stories of descendants from the Diaspora. Whether dispersed around the world as a result of the intercontinental slave ...

The Met will continue to spotlight African-diasporic art with the upcoming “Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now." ...