From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 10, 2018-February 24, 2019. AFA copy 39088019017003 Gift from Janet Stanley. This splendid illustrated ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit which presents “Olayami Dabls: Detroit Cosmologies” his first comprehensive museum ...

African masks in performance: The spectacular masks of the Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri, in Burkina Faso, perform to reenact the encounters between the village ancestors and the spirits ...

Carving techniques vary across regions in Africa, but generally involve hand tools like chisels and knives. The process ...

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...

Click to open image viewer. Bete masks, particularly older examples, are fairly rare in the corpus of African art. Masks of this type, characterized by bold volumes, projecting forms, and brass tacks ...

Key examples from a medium that is about as old as human history.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masks of Ether, an NFT collection inspired by African tribal art, is launching its portfolio of 10,000 images on October 5th to bring more African voices to the blockchain ...

For Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century European masters, African art was a revelation—innovative, sophisticated and to their eyes strikingly modern. They insisted that the continent’s creative ...