“The mashups create a complex and tonally ambiguous effect ... artwork can make you cringe’, and this cue offers one way into the work.” Biggers, a native of Los Angeles who is African ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

RFI journalists Ollia Horton and Melissa Chemam take us to the heart of two major art fairs: Paris’s Also Known As Africa and London’s 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair.

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art — citing her “breadth of experience” in the field — rather than ...

It's been 28 years since apartheid ended in South Africa and the celebrated election of Nelson Mandela. But the country's people are still wrestling with the after-effects of white minority rule.