The Ife show — co-organized by New York’s Museum for African Art, the Spanish Fundacion Botin and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments — drops another bombshell.

By: Odewole Funmilayo DorcasTHE ancient city of Ile-Ife, Nigeria is known for its culture, traditions and art. The city was founded around 500 BC by the Yoruba people, a kwa speaking group from ...

The rediscovery of Ife heads at the beginning of the 20th century overturned assumptions about the sophistication of African art “Head, possibly a king,” 12th-14th century. On view at the ...

A collection of more than 100 items of African art is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the first stop in a U.S. tour of rare art works from Nigeria's Ife region.

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 ...

More than 100 magnificent copper, terra-cotta and stone sculptures from the ancient West African city-state of Ife (pronounced ee-fay), now a city in southwest Nigeria, display a level of ...

From these eight original sculptures then moulded, she said 108 heads were cast in clay sourced from Ile-Ife, by potters from a female potter’s community in the Yoruba town of Ilorin and ...

He added, “The Ife Art graduates are now well-established among Contemporary artists all over the globe. They have excelled in stylistic articulation and the use of new and iconic materials.

The Ife art school : history, philosophy and character / E. A. Sheba and O. J. Ajiboye Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Sheba, Ebenezer Aiku Ajiboye, O. J Smithsonian ...