Kimbell Art Museum is growing its collection of African sculptures with two new acquisitions from one of the largest private ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

The pieces give insight into how the cultures prepared for the afterlife and revered their elders and leaders.

Note: Digital press kit is available through Dropbox. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will showcase works by sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya, considered one the fathers of ...

Spirit and flesh fuse through art in Africa. That means a group of guys sitting around in a dirt circle might well have the ceremonial weight of the pope at High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. You know ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Worn as part of an ensemble by a ...

When an elderly couple held a garage sale after selling their second home in the south of France, little did they know they would become embroiled in a legal battle with millions of euros at stake The ...

You might expect an exhibition featuring an artist who is better known as a historian to come with an academic bent. And on some level, painter David Driskell’s show at the Phillips Collection, “Icons ...