In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American painter Kehinde Wiley stands in front of a portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, during the opening of his ...
With the planned creation of new galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, the Brooklyn Museum hopes visitors will see their cultures “represented with dignity.” By Aruna D’Souza The Brooklyn ...
African art reshaped European modern art and aestheticsEurope’s crisis led artists to seek deeper meaning in African formsCubism and beyond drew on A ...
Victor Ekpuk is an internationally renowned Nigerian artist known for his artwork inspired by ancient African writing and graphic writing systems. INTERwoven TEXTures is his first solo exhibition at ...
Brooklyn Museum will renovate galleries to house its African art collection, opening a 6,400-square-foot space in 2027. The display will feature 300 works spanning antiquity to today, centering ...
Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...
Art history . . . is a malleable discipline, but understanding developments in art depends on it—or at the very least is ...
Mary Nooter Roberts, a scholar of African art who helped change the way non-Western art is presented in Western museums, died on Sept. 11 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 59. Mary Nooter Roberts, a ...
JACKSONVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES, March 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Colors of Africa Art Exhibit, a vibrant and immersive celebration of African history ...
A new theory credits medieval Catalan art as Picasso’s inspiration for the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but art historians are pushing back. Two people view Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...