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 ...

The biggest art fair in West Africa draws artists and curators alike to build on the success of African art in the region and beyond. It's Art Month in Lagos. Artists, galleries and visitors from ...

The question of whether Western museums should return works of African art to their home countries is vexed and hotly debated. But the mega-collector Sindika Dokolo thinks there’s a simple question ...

African art is having a vogue moment. People are very interested in it, but there’s still a sense of Africa and African art as something of an exotic “other” that sits on the periphery and not really ...

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 largest show of African art in more than 25 years in Fort Worth opens at the Kimbell Art Museum. The Language of Beauty in African Art is a major new exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum — with ...

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 ...

These photos were featured in the exhibit “Motherhood and African Art” that was on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 2020. As the largest continent in the world, encompassing 54 countries, ...

In the United States and Europe during the early twentieth century, the arts of Africa inspired many early twentieth century European and American modern artists, including, perhaps most famously, the ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...

A traveling art exhibit celebrating African civilizations, Egyptian mythology, and historic landscapes arrives in ...