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As the global art world continues to wrestle with its colonial past, the region’s artists and cultural institutions are ...
Various techniques were involved in the creation of African rock art, which have been preserved over centuries. Artists used ...
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 ...
The Lake Wales Arts Council will host “Sacred Currents: Spirituality in African Art,” an immersive exhibition running from ...
Introspect II celebrated Thonton Kabeya’s decade in South Africa through sculpted canvas works. Place and Practice ...
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 ...
African street art is taking the world by storm with its colorful, diverse expressions that are defining cityscapes the world ...
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 ...
The appointment of Bénédicte Savoy underscores France’s changing views on the issue of returning artifacts that were wrongly ...