Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...
SAN ANTONIO For Kehinde Wiley, a portrait can be a lot more than just a portrait. In "The World Stage: Africa Lagos Dakar," Wiley critiques the effects of African colonialism, transforms ordinary men ...
Yes, there are more important things in the world than Taylor Swift videos. No, we do not have to be outraged over everything. But when one of the most powerful and influential artists in contemporary ...
IT IS A magnificently bizarre hybrid. Still officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa, but better known as the Africa Museum, it cannot help but ooze colonial triumphalism, despite recent ...
This post is in collaboration with The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, which brings together scholars and researchers from around the world to use the Library’s rich collections. The ...
BRUSSELS — Serge Schoffel placed a red sticker on the label for a 19th-century Dan Mano mask from Liberia. “This is my best sale,” he said. Mr. Schoffel, a dealer based in Brussels, who has been ...
Ruth Sacks receives funding from the National Arts Council for research in the Congo conducted while undergoing a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. Years ago, while I was in Belgium on an ...
Lifang Zhang is a PhD candidate in Art History and a member of Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme at Rhodes University. Her PhD research is partly funded by NRF and Andrew W. Mellon ...