(Robert LaPrelle / Kimbell Art Museum) FORT WORTH — The vast expansion of France’s colonial empire in 19th-century Africa increasingly exposed Europeans to cultures and creations of very ...

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a ...

A bronze sculpture of a West African king that had been in the collection ... D.C. The pieces that were stolen by the British in the late 19th century included 29 that the Smithsonian Institution ...

The Worcester Art Museum has many outstanding 19th ... The paintings are the first 19th-century works by African-American artists to join the museum’s collection, expanding it toward a more ...

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C ... It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty ...

More information: Ron Lawrence Anderson et al, An African Art Re-Discovered: New Revelations on Sword Manufacture in Dahomey, Heritage (2025). DOI: 10.3390/heritage8020062 ...

Twelve feature in a show of pre-civil war ceramics that began at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... interest in African-American artistry, a second show of a 19th-century black potter ...

The Worcester Art Museum has many outstanding 19th century ... WAM will continue seeking important works by 19th century African-American artists to add to the three new acquisitions, Whitner ...