NEW YORK — Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nor is there one more shot through with ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

The African Origins exhibition ignores the fact that approximately 160 objects from Benin are held by the museum under ongoing demands for their repatriation. View of the exhibition The African ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...

Installation view, Omar Ba, “Clin d’œil : à Cheikh Anta Diop - Un continent à la recherche de son histoire” (2017), oil, pencil, acrylic, ink, and gouache on corrugated card, 129 4/5 x 282 1/2 x 15 ...

Gelatin Silver matte print on fiber paper. Edition size: 25 (not numbered). Dimensions: 10" x 8" sheet, 8" x 6-1/2" image. SIGNED by artist and dated '94' in pencil on verso. Excellent condition with ...

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In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois staged a giant pageant called “The Star of Ethiopia” in New York, with a thousand elaborately ...

Storytelling has always been at the heart of African culture . Long before written records, African communities relied on ...

Before he even sits down to play, Randy Weston fills a room... a venue if he has to. Then he pulls back the piano stool, stretches out his arms and the sounds of an Ancient Future fill every available ...