There are some unwelcome signs in the market for contemporary and Modern African art. In 2023 auction sales in this category fell a little—by 8% to $79.8m, according to the analysts ArtTactic ...

This trend, however, has changed as collectors from around the world increasingly appreciate African art's rich history and significance. While the contemporary African art market's dollar value ...

Niang says he is up 1 a.m. most nights packing up his merchandise. FORT PIERCE — The iconic African Art, Antiques and Gifts shop at historic Kraaz Square, formerly the Arcade Building ...

Alongside the growth of art fairs in Africa in recent years, international interest in contemporary African artists has risen sharply… some would say to unsustainable heights. Amid a global ...

“For example, there was a fantastic show that I helped organize on the Medu Art Ensemble, which is an anti-apartheid South African artist collective, a few years ago. But on this scale, to my ...

In December 1980, the exiled African Brazilian artist and scholar ... be celebrated in the exhibition Project a Black Planet: the Art and Culture of Panafrica, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...

An audience engaging with Viwe’s art, Image: Supplied But Mfaku’s work transcends personal artistic expression. Through his ISINTU movement, he weaves African culture into every aspect of life, from ...

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. When you purchase through links on our ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study. A mysterious tusked animal ...

One of South Africa's best known visual artists, Sam Nhlengethwa, says his art has long been influenced by his personal encounters with apartheid. "I regard myself as someone who brings awareness ...

Known as "Pastor Chris", the sixty-year-old is one of Africa's best-known evangelical ... In a sermon in August 2023, the pastor broadcast a clip from a TED talk Bill Gates gave in 2010 as an ...