Made from smooth stone, intricately carved busts of African figures stand on a mantelpiece in a gallery in the north of Beijing. The stone sculptures are in the company of oil paintings and wooden ...

A view of crafts as the African continent preserves and carries its cultural heritage into the future with its centuries-old tradition of arts in Banjul, the Gambia on February 16, 2025. Africa ...

A carved figure of woman in ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) When a dozen weather-worn wood sculptures from ...

In August 2020, Vusumuzi Maduna’s “Inner City Totem I,” 1981, a wood and steel sculpture outside the Cambridge Community Center that resembles a monumental African mask, was restored by Greg Curci, of ...

“Creative Africa,” taking the entirety of the Museum’s Perelman Building annex, ranges from ancient tribal art to fresh contemporary design. The Museum does not have a particularly strong collection ...

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. The work of award-winning Zimbabwe-born sculptor Shepherd Ndudzo is instantly recognisable. Fluid, elongated black bodies and body ...

THE sculpture which has been produced by the natives of Western and Central Africa has existed for ages, but its proper appreciation by us can be dated from the turn of this century. Although the’ ...