In Dakar, the capital of a country where 97 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, I found a palpable connection ...

The pieces give insight into how the cultures prepared for the afterlife and revered their elders and leaders.

Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private ...

The exhibition "Afro-Atlantic Histories" is the most comprehensive look at the interplay of art between Africa and the Americas ever displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Curator ...

The African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta new exhibit explores the facets of Black identity through the collection of ...

It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African ...

The French like their African art to be traditional. Nobody uses that outmoded word “primitive” anymore. The term of choice these days is arts premiers: the first arts. Bowls, masks, finely carved ...

A wood mask from the Hemba people. Below: (Left) A wood and raffia string mask from the Pende or Chokwe people and (right) a Ngady amwaash mask. Bottom: Two ancestor figures; at right, a red ...

After more than five years in development, Nigeria's glitzy Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City was set to host ...