African masks are rich in culture and history, representing various traditions and communities across the continent ...
As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 10, 2018-February 24, 2019. AFA copy 39088019017003 Gift from Janet Stanley. This splendid illustrated ...
Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private collections in the world. The Fort Worth museum acquired “Reliquary ...
Click to open image viewer. Bete masks, particularly older examples, are fairly rare in the corpus of African art. Masks of this type, characterized by bold volumes, projecting forms, and brass tacks ...
A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed ...
You could be forgiven if you still haven’t seen the Arts of Africa gallery at the Denver Art Museum since it opened last May, given the other fantastic shows happening on the floors below in the ...