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 ...

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 ...

The story of this show began in 2022, when Kevin Dumouchelle, curator at the museum and co-curator of the exhibition, planned to do a book for the Smithsonian about LGBTQ+ African artists. He soon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...