The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art presents collection pieces that are designed to do work for artists and ...

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 ...

Enwezor, a Nigerian-born curator and the first non-European artistic director of Documenta, spread the exhibition across five ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...

Third Space Art Foundation and Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos present Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku and an international dialogue on colonial archives, cultural memory, and Indigenous knowledge.

The Toledo Museum of Art has initiated the Africa Art Library, a program that will see the institution donate art books to ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced Body and Being in African Art, on view November 2, 2026–March 1, 2028. This Arts of Africa collection rotation brings together 53 objects ranging from masks and ...

African contemporary art is commanding higher prices than ever—but local art professionals say there isn't an equivalent investment in programs to support or promote it. Pavilion of Kenya "Exercises ...

Many museums find themselves in a complicated period of transition as they confront their entanglements with colonialism. That complex project was the subject of a recent Harvard Center for African ...

The Ohio institution has given books to the Koyo Kouoh Library at the Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art in Rwanda, and to ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...