African artists are making waves in the digital art world, with their innovative approaches and unique perspectives ...

The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all ...

In African body painting, colors are chosen for their symbolic meanings. For instance, red may stand for strength or courage, while white could mean purity or peace. Green may symbolize fertility or ...

It’s Worth Mentioning, a podcast about local history and pop culture, is back for another episode about black history in ...

Kerry James Marshall, one of America's leading painters, is debuting a new set of paintings that look at the involvement of ...

At a time when the political climate is affecting the arts, a Georgia museum celebrates West and Central African art.

The question of whether Western museums should return works of African art to their home countries is vexed and hotly debated. But the mega-collector Sindika Dokolo thinks there’s a simple question ...

A version of this story originally appeared in the fall 2019 artnet Intelligence Report. Ask a question about the African art market, and many experts will be quick to tell you that there is no such ...

A self-portrait by South African artist Alexis Preller and a piece from postcolonial Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi described by Sotheby’s as “career-defining,” will lead a sale of modern and ...

The Savannah African Art Museum is home to a collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from West and Central Africa. The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century ...

Paintings that reveal the inner lives of gay black men and a show devoted to a studio assistant who has made iconic works for big-name artists. Plus: the work of African blacksmiths and the luscious ...