JOHANNESBURG (AP) — James Delaney wants his public art in South Africa's biggest city to be more than a magnet for selfies and a delight for children. He's determined to have the vibrant metal ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A massive collection of African art once at the center of a county controversy linked to Commissioner Rodney Ellis will be auctioned off next week. Once housed for years ...

Ugandan lesbian sculptor Leilah Babirye's totems and masks speak for and about LGBTQ Ugandans' and Africans' experiences. The works have been sought after by art collectors and featured in public art ...

About 1,400 pieces of African art, which once were in the possession of Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis, were set to be sold Thursday morning as part of a nearly $990,000 court ...

Hailing from Dakar, Senegal, contemporary artist Soly Cissé maintains a practice unrestricted by disciplinary boundaries. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage, the context and ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

There’s a thesaurus worth of terms I could use to describe the nearly 300 sculptures included in “The Language of Beauty in African Art,” the Art Institute’s first exhibition of traditional African ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...

A carved figure of woman in ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) When a dozen weather-worn wood sculptures from ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...