A whirlwind of colour and art at the opening of this year’s Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, known as Dak’Art, in the Senegalese capital stood in stark contrast to the serious topic ...

ART X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair, returns for its highly anticipated ninth edition from October 31st to November 3rd, 2024. Since its inception in 2016, ART X Lagos has ...

ART X is the premier international art fair in West Africa and a dynamic platform created to showcase and support contemporary culture from Africa. This year, the theme is ‘Promised Lands’ and ...

Driven by a passion to right the art world’s perceived wrongs, curator Iheanyi Onwuegbucha is spearheading a crucial shift in the art world’s narrative. From his base at Princeton University ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...

2018, inkjet print. The work in St. Louis Art Museum’s new exhibition has a continent full of stories. “Narrative Wisdom and African Arts” was inspired in part by a chair whose carvings ...

A massive private African art collection secretly stored inside of an old Harris County maintenance shed. Our series of investigative reports launched a criminal probe directly involving one of ...

Windsor Gallery is set to host a captivating dual exhibition, The Eighth Continent and Mouvements Poétiques, celebrating African art and exploring rich narratives of identity, movement ...

ART X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair, recently presented the Access ART X Prize Alumni Impact Award at its VIP Preview. This special award within the Access ART X Prize program ...

This article is a deep dive into the dynamic world of African performance art, focusing on trailblazing pioneers who have shaped the continent's artistic landscape. From traditional storytelling ...

Wasiu Quadri, the Director of Programmes at the Five Cowries Art Education Initiative program ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 ...

This article explores the vibrant world of African landscape painting artists, highlighting their exceptional talent for portraying the continent's rich ecosystems, cultures, and histories.