Queer, Black art takes centre stage at a Smithsonian exhibition in DC.

For Pablo Picasso and other 20th-century European masters, African art was a revelation—innovative, sophisticated and to their eyes strikingly modern. They insisted that the continent’s creative ...

A version of this story originally appeared in the fall 2019 artnet Intelligence Report. Ask a question about the African art market, and many experts will be quick to tell you that there is no such ...

High Museum exhibit ‘Ezrom Legae: Beasts’ brings overdue attention to accomplished illustrator and sculptor. Ezrom Legae is the subject of a High Museum of Art exhibition, "Beasts," focused on animal ...

Alioune Diouf, Fabrice Monteiro, and Omar Ba utilize age-old motifs from African culture and spirituality to create contemporary artworks that tell the story of the African identity. All three artists ...

Spirit and flesh fuse through art in Africa. That means a group of guys sitting around in a dirt circle might well have the ceremonial weight of the pope at High Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. You know ...

The Savannah African Art Museum is home to a collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from West and Central Africa. The African art on display here includes a variety of 19th- and 20th-century ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is the only national museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, exhibition, conservation and study of the arts of Africa. The building ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” opens Jan. 23–Aug. 23. Artists’ voices are central to this exhibition, which features works ...

Global auction sales of works by African-born artists fell 8.4% last year to just under US$80 million, yet the market continues to show strength particularly for contemporary artists, and, strikingly, ...

Due to "wider market uncertainties", the London- and Lagos-based dealership that helped launch the careers of Joy Labinjo and ...