The DIA’s collection of and interest in African American art is now one of the largest collections in the world, says DIA ...

When I talk to Touria El Glaoui, founder of the 1-54 contemporary African art fairs, she has just returned from Brazil, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African painting showing the president in what appears to be a sexual act with Nelson Mandela is stirring outrage as well as calls to respect freedom of expression. Artist ...

A rich look at a post-colonial art explosion' - 3/5 This expansive exhibition at Tate Modern brings together over 50 artists ...

Think of modern art and Picasso, O’Keeffe or Dali may first come to mind. But Nigerian artists have made key contributions throughout the 20th century — and their influence is being exhibited in the ...

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A famous painting that sold for $1.6 million made its first public appearance in decades in Nigeria at the ART X Lagos exhibition over the weekend. Ben Enwonwu’s “Tutu” painting, often dubbed the ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

Let’s get one thing clear. Is ‘The Spear,’ a picture by the South African artist Brett Murray representing South African President Jacob Zuma in heroic revolutionary pose — with his penis hanging out ...

President Jacob Zuma should have ignored the insult, said Phylicia Oppelt in the Sunday Times (South Africa). But by overreacting, he’s sent half of South Africa to go look at the painting depicting ...