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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is awarding $3 million in grants to 24 sites nationwide that are critical, ...
The appointment of Bénédicte Savoy underscores France’s changing views on the issue of returning artifacts that were wrongly ...
The picture accompanying “Denver Show, African Roots,” [News, Tips & Bargains, May 30] was magnificent. Readers who cannot travel to Denver this summer should mark their calendars for late ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art announced the acquisition and permanent installation of sculpture “Wind Sculpture VII” by celebrated contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. “Wind ...
The British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE was in Washington a couple of weeks ago for the first-annual African Art Awards Dinner, where he was honored alongside fellow artist Ato Malinda and ...
Richmond’s exhibit “Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” opens our eyes to the astonishingly realistic, sophisticated human figures cast in metal or terra cotta more than half a ...
Many of us, when we hear the phrase "African art," think of the kind of masks and sculpture that inspired modern artists such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and Amedeo Modigliani. Designed to ...
Manny Beckles, founder of Shona African Sculptures, wins Exceptional Black-Owned Emerging Talent Award. Beckles shares Shona sculptures with design experts.
He described an ambitious goal to create a museum displaying 5,000 pieces of art from all 54 African nations as a global attraction for Houston.