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 ...

Founded by Trevyn McGowan and Julian McGowan, the gallery brings its roster of leading South African artists and designers to ...

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 ...

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

The Detroit Institute of Arts has revamped its African American arts collection and brought it to the heart of the museum. “Reimagine African American Art,” which opened Saturday, was organized by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON – It remains one of the strangest things KPRC 2 Investigates has uncovered in recent years. A massive private African art collection secretly stored inside of an old Harris County maintenance ...