Ogden Museum reopens Monday with must-see exhibits of African American abstract art BY DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer Jun 15, 2020 Updated Jun 15, 2020 4 min to read ...

African mud painting or bogolanfini is a traditional art form that employs natural materials to create intricate designs ...

Time Trip Part Two #8,” 2003 (acrylic on rag paper, mounted on plexiglass), by Alvin Loving In the hands of their creators, African-American women living during the slave era, quilts were often ...

Much of the work of a critic today involves re-contextualizing artists and rethinking art movements of the past, knowing that art history, like all histories, is fallible, privileging some stories and ...

Alain Moreau suggested that the mask long thought to be the painting's main influence was not in Europe until after the ...

Woodward persuaded the museum to buy its first piece of African art in 1977, a Kuba mask, from the Kuba tribe in central Congo. Building that collection, too, was a slow-moving process.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The abstract work of South African artist Christo Coetzee, who died in 2000, was widely shown around the world, including at a 1961 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in ...

A video by South African artist Andrew Putter seems, at first, an odd inclusion in a new survey exhibition mounted by the Smithsonian’s African Art Museum. It looks like an animated 17th-century ...

Kristen Woollery, a Black woman, is one such artist. Woollery’s unique and breathtaking abstract art pays homage to her Afro-Trinidadian roots and is heavily influenced by her upbringing in ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will release the catalog to its landmark, award-winning, multi-platform project “Heroes: Principles of African Greatness” Sept. 3. Initiated and led by ...

The Sotheby’s exhibition arrives at a moment when African contemporary art has grown in popularity, with works by artists living in Africa and abroad fetching ever-higher prices in galleries and ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, above, will open the exhibit “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California” on June 8. Running through Nov. 30, the UC ...