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 ...

Morocco’s contemporary art landscape has emerged as one of the most compelling in North Africa, blending deep-rooted ...

Exhibition Explores How LGBTQ+ Artists From Africa and Its Diaspora Are Part of a Larger, Joyful Story of African Art History ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — James Delaney wants his public art in South Africa's biggest city to be more than a magnet for selfies and a delight for children. He's determined to have the vibrant metal ...

Warren M. Robbins, 85, founder of the Museum of African Art, forerunner to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, died Dec. 4 at George Washington University Hospital of complications from ...

Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...

These photos were featured in the exhibit “Motherhood and African Art” that was on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2020. As the largest continent in the world, encompassing 54 countries, ...

The museum, which has long collected works by black artists, rehangs some of its galleries to offer a fascinating journey ...

Fred Wilson’s two sculptures — one representing ancient Egypt, and the other ancient Greece and Rome — reflect the interwoven histories of those places and of colonialism in Africa and Europe. Placing ...

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back for its fifth edition in New York, but in a new home. The fair relocated this year to downtown Manhattan after spending its first four at Pioneer Works ...

Large-scale metal "tapestries" and other sculptures by one of Africa's leading contemporary artists will be on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art from March 12 through Sept. 7.