As the crisis over the true ownership of the Museum of West African Art, MOWAA, between the Palace of the Oba of Benin, Edo ...
It’s a big week for art in Nigeria. Lagos hosts the Contemporary Fair this weekend, while Benin City prepares for the opening ...
Amid Lagos Art Week and Lagos Photo, this event brought together cultural practitioners for wide-ranging conversations about ...
Drawn from the CBH Bank Collection, More than Meets the Eye charts the evolution of African and African diaspora art from ...
Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.
The exhibition Inscribing meaning will explore the relationships between African art, language, graphic systems and the written word. It focuses on the history of particular African scripts, including ...
In its first pandemic-era edition, the Dakar Biennale, Africa’s biggest art gathering, is uneven, hectic — and full of possibility. By Siddhartha Mitter DAKAR, Senegal — Despite the rise to prominence ...
The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is returning for its 10th year in New York, an event one collector described as “a kind of movable feast.” By Ginanne Brownell In her previous works, the ...
A plan announced in 2021 to expand the Newark Museum of Art and build 250 apartments on its downtown campus is once again moving ahead after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, ...