Writ large on banners flanking the monumental staircase of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the West African greeting of “Bonne arrivée” welcomed the first guests Tuesday to the exhibition of ...

I don’t know yet that there is such a thing as African LGBTQ art history,” says curator and author Serubiri Moses. Moses is a ...

Collectibles used in American homes come from many countries. Crafts from Africa have been especially popular since the 1960s. Many modern European and American artists such as Pablo Picasso were ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - To find the house that Alan Donovan built, drive a few miles southeast from the heart of Kenya's traffic-snarled capital and pull onto an abruptly quiet road toward the savanna. The ...

Pride and Belonging in African Art’ at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, discusses the cultural effects of a brutal crackdown in Iran and takes a look at a landmark 1958 installat ...

The Museum for African Art celebrates black history 12 months a year. But in special honor of February, the officially designated Black History Month, it has organized “African Forms,” an ...

Arts and crafts play a large role in economies dependent on tourism. Now some governments are waking up to the need to professionalise the sector. Beads, woodcarvings, batiks, sandals and colourful ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — — To find the house that Alan Donovan built, drive a few miles southeast from the heart of Kenya’s traffic-snarled capital and pull onto an abruptly quiet road toward ...

Since age 8, Martin Owino has fostered had a deep-rooted passion for art, especially batik, a cloth-decorating craft with origins in Africa and Asia. In fact, Owino’s passion for the intricate art was ...

Martial Bassama's business has allowed him to share small pieces of his home with Southeast Texas. Bassama, from the African country of Senegal, is the manager at Sahara in Parkdale Mall, a store that ...