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From bombed-out churches to rubble-strewn streets, Ukrainians are rescuing art and memory as acts of defiance against ...
Global auction sales of works by African-born artists fell 8.4% last year to just under US$80 million, yet the market continues to show strength particularly for contemporary artists, and ...
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From War Machine to Icon of Peace
Ralph Ziman has always been a pacifist — so much so that he became a conscientious objector and left his home country of ...
Inspired by their multicultural identities and the spiritualism of their childhoods, these artists make art by and for the people.
African art is booming—in Russia. As the Kremlin has moved to strengthen its trade and diplomatic ties with African countries, rekindling a Soviet soft power campaign on the continent, Russian ...
Photo courtesy of Jomo Tariku, designer of modern African furniture. This stool is inspired by spiritual traditions of the Dogon people, incorporating elements of the Dogon cosmology. The ...
Like many other residents of Sudan's capital, painter Yasmeen Abdullah had to leave much behind when she fled the war erupting around her. As an artist, that included most of her work.
The exhibition transcends Eurocentric art history by spotlighting African perspectives on Christianity.
An exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth explores New World manifestations of surrealism. Organized by the Modern’s María Elena Ortiz, “Surrealism ...
Jackson Green, an activist from Utah, has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial to Black Civil War soldier at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC last autumn. In a ...