AFA copy 39088020440632: Gift from Janet Stanley. "Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, ...

“The Cape Coast Castle Doors,” also known as “The Doors of No Return," or "The Black Doors of Tears," are one of the first things visitors see at the exhibit of The Kinsey African American Art & ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University Ekpuk’s work challenges popular ...

Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...

A new theory credits medieval Catalan art as Picasso’s inspiration for the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but art historians are pushing back. Two people view Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...

From the historic corridors of Egypt's ancient treasures to the contemporary galleries in South Africa, each museum showcases Africa's culture and evolving art scene. These museums not only house ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Windy City art collector Daniel Texidor Parker likes to think the works that he's accumulated over the last three decades tells much more than the history of Africa. "Scientists have said that this is ...