Viewed benignly, the encyclopedic art museum is a great public library of things, illuminating the brilliant variety and shared impulses of our species, and promoting intercultural understanding and ...

A startingly discovery of stolen art has spawned a new initiative and a significant grant. The University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art is creating three new positions to study the origins of their ...

The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...

Even as race-conscious cultural programming is under attack, this San Francisco museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced the exhibition “Tsedaye Makonnen—Sanctuary.” Opening Dec. 13 and remaining an ongoing display, the exhibition features seven sculptures ...

Reviewed by Carol Magee in African arts (Los Angeles) 44 (4) winter 2011, pages 93-94. AFA copy 39088015517063 is gift from Janet Stanley. Contents The Cincinnati Art Museum's Steckelmann Collection: ...

Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

Think of modern art and Picasso, O’Keeffe or Dali may first come to mind. But Nigerian artists have made key contributions throughout the 20th century — and their influence is being exhibited in the ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

The National Museum of African Art is again without a director after Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the post on March 31. She had served in the role for less than two years. The interim director will ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person. The museum announced ...