When he talks about African art, Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford radiates like a beam of sunshine. That’s good because most of the National Museum of African Art he now heads gets little of it ...

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His face and torso are patterned with parallel scarification ridges that perhaps identify his place of origin and ... The Ife show — co-organized by New York’s Museum for African Art, ...

In her “Living2Portraits” work, expressionist artist Randiesia Fletcher tries to challenge common misconceptions about Pan-African faces. This especially applies to non-smiling expressions ...

Last week, the New Orleans Museum of Art trumpeted the hiring of a new curator to oversee the 112-year-old institution’s trove of traditional art from various African cultures.

Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Disguise: Masks & Global African Art,” reinvigorates historical masks from the museum’s collection by showing them with contemporary work by 24 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the collection, conservation, study and exhibition of Africa’s arts across time and media. The ...

Laolu Senbanjo has worked with celebrities such as Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o and Serena Williams. Now the artist is turning his attention to malaria, creating a visual language called “The ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person.

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.