Traditional carving forms the basis of African sculpture-making. Artists usually employ hand tools, like chisels and knives, ...
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 ...
A new contemporary art museum has opened in Ivory Coast's UNESCO-listed beachside town of Grand-Bassam in a building that is ...
Chances are that when you think of the term “African art” what comes to mind are figures and face masks carved out of wood. Right? Well, you're not wrong. Most sub- Saharan art fits that description.
Sculpture is another major form of traditional African art, with wood as its most popular medium. The Yoruba people of ...
In the years after the bloody civil war in Mozambique was over, the African nation was still awash with guns. Assault rifles, handguns, all the tools of war wielded by soldiers, both adult and child, ...
The largest show of African art in more than 25 years in Fort Worth opens at the Kimbell Art Museum. The Language of Beauty in African Art is a major new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum — with ...
Season 14, episode four of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange focuses on issues surrounding the ownership of African Art, stolen over centuries of colonialism. Directed by French filmmaker Nora ...
“I am their mother. I gave birth to all the others.” Those words were spoken by Chief Kingange of Kaluma A Mbangu, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1987. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get ...