One of its co-curators wants historians to expand on the display and “write a proper history” of this artistry ...

AFA copy 39088020440632: Gift from Janet Stanley. "Art historian Suzanne Blier surveys over 150,000 years of African art, set against the changing history of the continent, customs and religions, ...

The Walter and Linda Evans Gallery of African American Art opens Feb. 6, 2025, at Telfair Academy in Savannah, featuring 28 donated works and marking a historic shift for the museum.

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...

Warren M. Robbins, 85, founder of the Museum of African Art, forerunner to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, died Dec. 4 at George Washington University Hospital of complications from ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Long before he embarked on a career in science, La Jolla resident Richard Ulevitch had an interest in “non-traditional” art and artifacts from around the globe. Now, in his retirement from a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced the exhibition “Tsedaye Makonnen—Sanctuary.” Opening Dec. 13 and remaining an ongoing display, the exhibition features seven sculptures ...

John K. Lapiana has been appointed director after a year and a half in an interim role following the abrupt departure of Ngaire Blankenberg. John K. Lapiana, (L), new director of the Smithsonian's ...