In Dakar, the capital of a country where 97 percent of the population identifies as Muslim, I found a palpable connection ...

When gallery owner Rex Mhiripiri saw a gas station at 90th Street and Penn Avenue S. in Bloomington, he didn’t see just gasoline. He saw the future home of his huge two-story Mhiripiri Gallery. That ...

At the Johari Africa gift shop in Clarkston, the holidays arrive with color, texture, and stories stitched into belts, bags, ...

For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...

Paris welcomed the new school year with one of South Africa’s most admired dancers, choreographer Gregory Maqoma. Invited to ...

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As the art market roared back in 2021, one segment has ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

In collaboration with Johannesburg’s Keyes Art Mile, The Artists’ Press is shining a light on South Africa’s rich history of ...

In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...

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Although the newly reopened Princeton University Art Museum attempts to grapple with previous accusations of Eurocentricity, questions remain over whether it has been successful.