The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art presents collection pieces that are designed to do work for artists and ...

Southern Africa has one of the most detailed and elaborate bodies of rock art anywhere in the world, from herds of running ...

The following is a curated list of resources that showcase the work of contemporary African visual artists. Each entry includes the artist’s name, country of origin, a brief description of their ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a donation from former Michigan senator Jack Faxon (1936–2020) ...

The Ohio institution has given books to the Koyo Kouoh Library at the Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art in Rwanda, and to ...

Contemporary African Art Fair and Paraíso 2026, bringing the best of African and Latin American art to Frieze Week.

Many museums find themselves in a complicated period of transition as they confront their entanglements with colonialism. That complex project was the subject of a recent Harvard Center for African ...

AFA copy 39088020440632: Gift from Janet Stanley. "Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, ...

A significant collection of traditional African art has had a home in Canada for almost a hundred years. At Agnes Etherington Art Centre, we are working on new, more hospitable practices of care for ...

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Alioune Diouf, Fabrice Monteiro, and Omar Ba utilize age-old motifs from African culture and spirituality to create contemporary artworks that tell the story of the African identity. All three artists ...