The artwork borrows from classical easel painting techniques, posing African leaders in a style mainly associated with ...

There are some unwelcome signs in the market for contemporary and Modern African art. In 2023 auction sales ... 2019—less than the £5.4m made by one painting by South African artist Lisa ...

The Presence of Living Things is Musoke’s work spanning her lifetime. It is a collage of mixed media art, from print, to ...

Here's our list of Frieze must-see shows during this coming week of New York art fairs, from museums to galleries.

His mother, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, is a scholar of African ... by the art of Jack Whitten (1939-2018), currently the subject of a magnificent MoMA retrospective, the tile paintings are essentially ...

Politics may be the foundation of the nation’s capital, but culture is what makes the district shine. Meet three local ...

Despite studying art history ... one can just feast on the details of all these paintings—and every now and then, you arrive at the full-on portraits. And there’s a book on Velázquez ...

The museum is dedicated to the history of African Americans ... the mantle hangs a portrait of a Black woman dressed in white, calmly gazing outward. Vibrant indigo paint drips down the canvas ...

On Tuesday, Wiley unveiled his new collection of large-format portraits of African leaders at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat ... Wiley’s work, rooted in classical ...

Groundswell has focused on using art as a tool for social change; it's painted more than 600 murals across the city so far, including these new additions. Find the murals in Bushwick, Sunset Park ...

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is returning for its 10th year in New York, an event one collector described as “a ...