A full-figure example which, when shown in 1935 at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition of Negro African sculpture, was voted the most popular piece by the public and nicknamed the “Venus de Milo ...

Ancient African sculpture discovered after 2,000 years in the mud ... That’s what makes the head you see up top so completely remarkable. Recently excavated near a Nigerian village, ...

Anyone who has visited the choice collection at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth comes away with at least one indelible image: of this intensely beautiful terra cotta head.. Arguably the most ...

Renowned auction houses like Sotheby’s are propping up the modern and contemporary African art movement, bringing together artists, investors, and collectors from around the world.

Fresh encounters with African art at de Young By Kenneth Baker , Art Critic Updated Jan 30, 2015 12:36 p.m. A 20th century Bamum mask from Cameroon, wood, cowries, cane and pigment, at the de Young.

The African Sculpture One Playwright Looks at Every Day. ... Over 20 years later, this beautiful head of a black woman still speaks to me. It’s one of the first things I see in the morning.

At the time of discovery, the head was considered too great a masterpiece to have been created by indigenous African artists – a reflection of prevailing attitudes of the early 20th century.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced the upcoming arrival of a brand new collection, “Head to Toe: African and Asian Wearables.” This inaugural presentation of the Ira and Myrna Brind ...

Renowned auction houses like Sotheby’s are propping up the modern and contemporary African art movement, bringing together artists, investors, and collectors from around the world.