At the Detroit Institute of Arts, the riches of African-American art

The museum, which has long collected works by black artists, rehangs some of its galleries to offer a fascinating journey ...
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African Art Announces “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art”

Exhibition Explores How LGBTQ+ Artists From Africa and Its Diaspora Are Part of a Larger, Joyful Story of African Art History ...

'It doesn't look African' - challenging stereotypes at Tate Modern

But here at Tate Modern, her focus is African Modernism and Afro-Surrealism - movements she says are rarely spotlighted in ...
Next CityOpinion

Colonialism Didn’t Just Steal Africa’s Art. It Took Africa’s Architecture, Too.

Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...
Cfr.org

South Africa: Zuma Painting Opens Freedom of Expression Debate

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The New York Times reports that an exhibition at a Johannesburg art gallery is ...
The Root

In Painting, African Women’s Burden Carries a Deeper Meaning

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...