JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African painting showing the president in what appears to be a sexual act with Nelson Mandela is stirring outrage as well as calls to respect freedom of expression. Artist ...

One of the oldest and most complete collections of African American art in the nation just got a major upgrade - and you can ...

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Princeton University's art museum has reopened. It has double the space, double the art, but the same mission of diversity ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

Let’s get one thing clear. Is ‘The Spear,’ a picture by the South African artist Brett Murray representing South African President Jacob Zuma in heroic revolutionary pose — with his penis hanging out ...

A famous painting that sold for $1.6 million made its first public appearance in decades in Nigeria at the ART X Lagos exhibition over the weekend. Ben Enwonwu’s “Tutu” painting, often dubbed the ...

President Jacob Zuma should have ignored the insult, said Phylicia Oppelt in the Sunday Times (South Africa). But by overreacting, he’s sent half of South Africa to go look at the painting depicting ...

Johannesburg: A painting that depicts a dead Nelson Mandela undergoing an autopsy provoked outrage in South Africa on Saturday, but the artist who created the work has said it is a tribute to the ...

Artists in South Africa say they're not benefitting enough from a rise in popularity and global demand for african art due to ...