What once was a weathered piece of English Oak has now been transformed into a functional and stunning bread bin. The journey ...

Cameroon’s Mandara Mountains and Malawi’s Mount Mulanje were also added to the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage ...

Despite the pressures of modern times, the village thrives through creativity, dedication and the sharing of knowledge across generations.

Omar Victor Diop’s "Project Diaspora" photographic series offers a profound exploration of the often-overlooked narratives of ...

Contemporary artists, too, take on the woundedness of wood. Kader Attia’s J’Accuse (2016), recently exhibited at the Berlinische Galerie, shows 17 wooden busts that resemble the injured faces of ...

While captivating to watch, this performance also actualizes the performativity of identity central to contemporary ...

Thousands of sculpted heads – captive African men, women, and children – meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred ...

In her exhibit Behind the Veil, Tavares uses wood portraiture to celebrate Black women’s beauty in all forms and in all ...

Under the cover of darkness, Nomali jumped over a wall, burst into a museum and snatched a human skull from a pedestal before escaping through a window to the wail ...

Working in isolation for 10 years, Philly artist reveals his army at Grounds for Sculpture Clifford Ward has quietly crafted two dozen African fantasy warriors. They are the centerpiece of his first ...

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the end of the month, the collector and dealer Adam Lindemann—head of the steering committee ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands of the continent’s former colonisers.