On April 15, the College of Fine Arts hosted a lecture by Dr. Joan Kee, the director of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ...

While there are many ways to create vibrant bold colours, they all follow one principle, using bold colourful pieces, striking art, or bold patterns to make a statement. Colours like yellows, oranges, ...

“But art and culture is everything.” T.K. Smith, a historian of African art based in Georgia, said it was “painful” to see the government target the museum and similar institution ...

Notably, African artists are slowly but surely getting their due for their efforts in bringing back lost art techniques to the contemporary global art scene. Not only are they preserving culture ...

African gourd decorating is a centuries-old traditional art. The craft consists of turning simple gourds into intricate works of art using various techniques and materials. Not only the decorated ...

Robin Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1976. Inspired by youth street culture and art history, Rhode creates drawings, paintings, photography, and films. In Rhode’s work, urban walls ...

Attend Vineyard Haven library’s eighth and penultimate lecture in a nine-month virtual series on African art. This month’s topic is “Likeness and Beyond: Portraiture in Iconic African Art.” ...

Art hangs on the walls at the exhibition “Osi Audu: The Self in African Art,” at Opalka Gallery at Sage College on April 2 in Albany. A 2025 yarn on canvas piece titled “Goosebumps/Hunter ...

This practice served as a culturally significant commemoration of African ancestors until colonialism disrupted the art form. As with the many things it disrupted, and demonized, in most parts of ...

They are being shown the library’s first collection of primary sources that are unrelated to the Holocaust—a collection of children’s drawings from Darfur ... As a link between Africa and the Middle ...

During the welcome session we are asked to share our intentions for the next few days. “Survive without caffeine?” I joke. I am sitting with a group of nine others (four practitioners and six ...