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It is one of 10 new paintings by Nigerian artist John Madu, created for "Paint Your Path" – the first solo exhibition by an African artist at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, which opened Friday. Madu, 42 ...
African Spirits' - A third of the works shown here were newly acquired. The museum was thus able to benefit from a donation of thousands of photographs from the renowned Arthur Walther collection.
Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published. No one — no one — was more important to the Civil Rights Movement here ...
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity ...
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.— A newly formed partnership between the Tennessee Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies is producing early results in the fight against violent crime in Memphis. Known as ...
BOSTON (WHDH) - The Boston African-American History Museum is facing an uncertain future after federal funding cuts from the Trump administration. For more than six decades, Boston’s African ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - While some families spent Memorial Day barbecuing or enjoying the day off from work, Tamarkus Smith was planning his daughter's funeral. Smith's daughter, Jyrah, was killed Friday ...
Tucked in Downtown Memphis, the Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art offers a journey across continents and centuries in a single afternoon. From Qing Dynasty jade masterpieces to ivory carvings and ...
(Nick Kariuki/Billy Penn) Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented “Head to Toe: African and Asian Wearables,” a collection of over 50 pieces to help introduce its new ...