One of its co-curators wants historians to expand on the display and “write a proper history” of this artistry ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

The City’s first and only gallery dedicated to contemporary Pan-African Art will open next month. Gallerist Craig Mark and ...

HOUSTON – The story of Black history can be found all around us. Whether it’s seen worldwide, or right here in Houston, Black history can be found threaded into each culture. This Black History Month, ...

Pride and Belonging in African Art’ at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, discusses the cultural effects of a brutal crackdown in Iran and takes a look at a landmark 1958 installat ...

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 ...

Artworks at the Kalahari Resorts & Conventions don’t just look African. They are African. Hand picked by owners Todd and Shari Nelson–and family–on purchasing trips to the continent. ByChadd Scott, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a study published in Telestes, Dr. Joshua Kumbani and Dr. Margarita Díaz-Andreu categorized the various dance scenes ...