Art revelers can also celebrate the richness of African art at Opa-locka’s The Art of Transformation, which will feature six ...

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 ...

African artists are redefining global culture by fusing traditional and contemporary art forms. Their work challenges ...

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

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 ...

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 High Museum of Art reopens its African galleries with a focus on women's ceramic traditions, highlighting their craftsmanship and cultural significance.

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

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 ...

On last night’s episode of The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah, who is South African, took on the unlikely topic of art restitution, weighing in on Europe’s ongoing debate about “what to do with all the ...

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 ...