Richmond’s exhibit “Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” opens our eyes to the astonishingly realistic, sophisticated human figures cast in metal or terra cotta more than half a ...

The rediscovery of Ife heads at the beginning of the 20th century overturned assumptions about the sophistication of such art.

I love a good creation story, and the Yoruba people of the ancient city of Ife, in what is now Nigeria, have a doozy. It involves a god indulging in a bit too much palm wine, a snail-shell full of ...

Ife artists possessed an advanced understanding of human anatomy, proportion, and metal-casting, creating artwork that is stylistically similar to European classical art, yet gorgeously original.

Kingdom of Ife at the British Museum, review The quality of the West African sculpture in the British Museum's show is flabbergasting.

The Oni of Ife must hear this, Hirst's "Golden heads (female)" sculpture at his Venice exhibition is a perfect replica of Ife sculpture and he didn't even reference Ife or Nigeria.

And this question becomes more urgent when we look at the sculptures of Ife, on show at the British Museum. The Kingdom of Ife, in what is now south-western Nigeria, flourished between the 9th and ...

The Ife kingdom, which ruled what is now Nigeria from roughly A.D. 800 to 1400, produced astonishing sculpture whose realism far outstripped that of European artists during the same period, said ...

The sculptures of Ife exploded European notions of the history of art, and they forced Europeans to rethink Africa's place in the cultural history of the world.

When you walk into "Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, it feels like you are walking into a crowd of people. The exhibition is filled with the ...

There are so many Africas, and so many arts of Africa. Picasso and Matisse thought they had hit on the essence of Africa during the first decade of the 20th century. The African masks and ...

In 1938, workers using pickaxes to ready a house foundation in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ife unearthed one of West Africa's major art finds. Buried on the site of a former royal palace ...