The DIA’s collection of and interest in African American art is now one of the largest collections in the world, says DIA ...
The question of whether Western museums should return works of African art to their home countries is vexed and hotly debated. But the mega-collector Sindika Dokolo thinks there’s a simple question ...
When I talk to Touria El Glaoui, founder of the 1-54 contemporary African art fairs, she has just returned from Brazil, ...
A version of this story originally appeared in the fall 2019 artnet Intelligence Report. Ask a question about the African art market, and many experts will be quick to tell you that there is no such ...
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 new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...
Spirit and flesh fuse through art in Africa. That means a group of guys sitting around in a dirt circle might well have the ceremonial weight of the pope at High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. You know ...
In the United States and Europe during the early twentieth century, the arts of Africa inspired many early twentieth century European and American modern artists, including, perhaps most famously, the ...
Explore history, themes, and heritage of African American art. Explore history, themes, and heritage of African American art. Series sponsored by Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP. Funded in part by ...
Aaron Paskins’ finished sculptures, especially his life-sized pieces, are no joke. The attention to detail and passion he injects into his works are enchanting. It’s a skill he’s been honing for a ...
The Museum for African Art will begin exhibitions again when it reopens at its 110th St. location in 2009. It's not always easy to track down the Museum of African Art. Although it was only founded in ...