From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Bete masks, particularly older ...

Story by Anya Martin. Photos by Jenni Girtman. In 1985, while visiting an art school in Dakar, Senegal, Jean-Patrick Guichard was captivated by the work of young artist Cheikh Tidiane Kéïta. As a ...

One of the most intriguing patients at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a fearsome-looking helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection. The museum’s Conservation and Arts ...

Note: Digital press kit is available through Dropbox. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will showcase works by sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya, considered one the fathers of ...

For Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century European masters, African art was a revelation—innovative, sophisticated and to their eyes strikingly modern. They insisted that the continent’s creative ...