When he talks about African art, Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford radiates like a beam of sunshine. That’s good because most of the National Museum of African Art he now heads gets little of it ...

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arts entertainment Visual Arts. African art reconsidered in major Kimbell show More than 200 works are given cultural and religious contexts, as well as aesthetic appreciation.

His face and torso are patterned with parallel scarification ridges that perhaps identify his place of origin and ... The Ife show — co-organized by New York’s Museum for African Art, ...

African art has had a place at the Museum of Modern Art from its earliest days — though not the African art you might think. In 1935, back when the museum nestled into a townhouse on West 53rd ...

Last week, the New Orleans Museum of Art trumpeted the hiring of a new curator to oversee the 112-year-old institution’s trove of traditional art from various African cultures.

Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Disguise: Masks & Global African Art,” reinvigorates historical masks from the museum’s collection by showing them with contemporary work by 24 ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person.

Laolu Senbanjo has worked with celebrities such as Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o and Serena Williams. Now the artist is turning his attention to malaria, creating a visual language called “The ...

The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is currently hosting Black Art Week, showcasing three new exhibits that aim to celebrate Black creative excellence. It's the first time the ...