African visual art is witnessing a transformation, thanks to the contributions of diaspora artists. These artists are ...

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...

A pair of local art museums will host a film series in July that highlights the global African diaspora by screening 10 award ...

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his trademark ...

It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting ...

The past century has seen both enormous progress and chronic concerns.

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 ...

A hybrid female and male figure with a scroll for a head that’s propped up by golden neck rings, extends its four arms outward as if to accept an embrace or an offering. The limbs are sinewy with ...

Introduction -- Northwest Africa and the Sahara -- Western and Central Sudanic Societies -- Western Sudanic Village Based Societies -- The Western Guinea Coast -- The Arts of the Akan of the Ivory ...

A Miami art exhibition is reframing the World Cup as both a sporting spectacle and a cultural archive, exploring Africa’s deep relationship with football through visual art, memory, and diaspora ...

South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For more than two decades Muholi has used photography to ...

The grants will support solo shows for artists like Joey Terrill, Precious Okoyomon, and Amanda Williams.