The drawing of the ancient animal was found on a rock wall at the La Belle France site and represented an animal that was not ...

African artist Ezrom Legae, a lesser known figure in protest art, addressed the institutionalized racism of the South African system of apartheid that existed from 1948 to 1990 in particular — and ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first ...

The heartbreaking stories of elephants and orangutans confined in South African zoos, suffering in silence behind bars.

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu was talking about a video clip that was played during the meeting between Trump and South African President ... a former lawmaker in the national Parliament, said ...

In South Africa you can pay a mere $100 to pull the trigger on an aardvark. It’s not a particularly stealthy or aggressive animal ... expensive wall art, netting $35,000 each — at a time when poaching ...

An upcoming exhibition featuring the work of LGBTQ+ African artists at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art has been postponed until 2026 due to “our current budgetary situation,” a ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History ... focuses on the relationship between art and Black protest, including ...

Then there are animals that have been trained to make art. Pigcasso was a pig in South Africa whose trainer taught her to paint on canvas via reinforcement learning. The trainer would pick out the ...

John K. Lapiana, (L), new director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. Heran Sereke-Brhan, (R), new deputy director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.

The robin won. The first national animal to be used as a symbol in South Africa was the springbuck (or springbok), proposed in 1906 as a name for the country's rugby team ahead of a tour of Europe.