Artist Chris Friday creates lifelike but larger-than-life drawings and more in her first solo exhibit presented at Sarasota ...

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 ...

African art isn’t a fad. It’s a way to start important conversations on the global stage. British writer Ekow Eshun makes the case for why the term “African art” must be embraced.

A video by South African artist Andrew Putter seems, at first, an odd inclusion in a new survey exhibition mounted by the Smithsonian’s African Art Museum. It looks like an animated 17th-century ...

As the art market roared back in 2021, one segment has taken off with particular intensity: ultra-contemporary African art. Figurative paintings by artists from Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria ...

Yale University Art Gallery pulled two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition because it refused to agree to the anti-DEI language that was part of the Trump administration's new ...

Art Guides Contemporary Art From Africa Is Seizing Global Attention. Here’s Your Guide to Six Emergent Art Markets Making It Happen. Here is your guide to six dynamic emerging art capitals ...

Encouraging Cleveland Museum of Art to spend time studying them, a bench sits a few feet from these two large paintings, “Wall Painting With Bishop Petros Protected by Saint Peter,” left, and ...