Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

Baule mask Ivory Coast wood height: 43 in. (109 cm.) base by wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876–1951) (image courtesy Christie’s) Popularly known as the “Krugier-Picasso mask,” a 19th century West ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marceau Rivière is a collector-traveller and scholar of the old school. Over seven decades he has amassed one ...

Solange Mallett tours a visitor through African Plural Art, her newly opened African art gallery on Fillmore Street, and stops before two of her favorite objects in the calm, well-lit space. Both were ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

It seems no museum collection is complete without a few token African masks. Many of us have glimpsed them walking between exhibits, but few of us know what role they actually play to the many ...

Click to open image viewer. The Dan call masks gle or ga and believe them to be manifestations of wild forest spirits. These spirits (du) have no form, but when they wish to use their powers to ...