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 Philadelphia Museum of Art is bringing African art to Philly. The plan is for the art to stay permanently. Imani Roach, curator for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Brind Center for African and ...

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

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: ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It doesn’t sound as if they had to give her the hard sell. “This was a co-organization between ourselves and our colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City),” says Dr. Kristen ...

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

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 ...