African masks have always been an integral part of the continent's cultural heritage, serving as a link between the spiritual ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 10, 2018-February 24, 2019. AFA copy 39088019017003 Gift from Janet Stanley. This splendid illustrated ...

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...

Click to open image viewer. Bete masks, particularly older examples, are fairly rare in the corpus of African art. Masks of this type, characterized by bold volumes, projecting forms, and brass tacks ...

Spirit and flesh fuse through art in Africa. That means a group of guys sitting around in a dirt circle might well have the ceremonial weight of the pope at High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. You know ...

You could be forgiven if you still haven’t seen the Arts of Africa gallery at the Denver Art Museum since it opened last May, given the other fantastic shows happening on the floors below in the ...

A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed ...