At the Johari Africa gift shop in Clarkston, the holidays arrive with color, texture, and stories stitched into belts, bags, ...

What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

A gift of 300 pieces of African art will seed the new Brind Center for African and African Diasporic Art. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African ...

The vision behind this new cultural space comes from an Ethiopian aunt–niece duo, Selamawit Alene and Dorina De Vita, whose ...

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar’s Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye ...

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 ...

For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...

Today we are talking about art from Africa, more art in Orlando and a call for artists engaged in social issues, particularly climate change. The art from Africa comes courtesy of Charlene Edwards, a ...